Iloilo City—Officials of the Boracay Inter-Agency Management and Rehabilitation Group and the Philippine National Police on Friday encouraged tourists visiting the world-famous Boracay Island to respect the country’s culture and tradition.
Foreign tourists should observe proper decorum as a form of respect for Philippine culture and tradition, BIAMRG chief Natividad Bernardino said a day after images of a female Taiwanese tourist, wearing just a two-piece string bikini, went viral on social media.
“We have our own cultural values as Filipinos and Asians. They should be able to respect that,” Bernardino said in a phone interview. “There is no dress code (being followed). Maybe it is just common sense,” she added. PNA
The Taiwanese tourist, with her boyfriend, left their hotel on Wednesday afternoon, wearing just a string bikini, even though the hotel management told them that it was inappropriate, Bernardino said.
Despite the hotel management’s advice, the same tourist again donned another pair of string bikini on Thursday morning. “They were told not to by the hotel management, but they said it was a form of art,” Bernardino said.