Visitors enjoy kayaking at a reopened beach resort in Baarangay Kapatan, Glan, Sarangani, last June 28 as the town’s tourism industry slowly starts to recover. Photo by Amiel M. Cagayan
GLAN, Sarangani – Nearly a month after a powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake devastated this town, several beach resorts have been allowed to resume operations, offering hundreds of displaced tourism industry workers fresh livelihood lifelines and delighting tourists.
Glan, Sarangani’s major tourist destination famous for its powdery white sand beaches, employed at least 600 tourism workers before the devastating June 8 tremblor shut down beach resort operations and downstream industries.
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