Coron Reefs; New tourism development announced

[World Wide Diver]

Has anybody else seen this article regarding a major tourism development in Coron?

Coron islet to be next Asian tourism jewel - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

Be interested to know what people's opinions are. When we were there, we found that the reefs were in gererally very poor state that we dived on - desolate of fish.

However, we did spend much of our time diving the wrecks there which had excellent coral growth/marine life (though viz can be an issue due to the pearl farms which also protect the areas around many of the wrecks).

That said, this is the PI's and life can easily come back here if an area has good protection for a few years.

We think that this might be a important move towards establishing the PI's as THE major SE Asian destination for tourists from a mid-high/high-end bracket to the PI's in the next few years.

 

[Gen San Chris]

Sounds very interesting and I am sure that it will be an expensive place to stay and do anything, I hope that they can sort out the marine area in order to make the diving worth while as I am sure it will be out of the price range for most humans!

 

[bill22]

Hope it doesn't end up like Sipadan... the whole area is overbuilt. Reports say there are lots of issues with things like garbage and sewage there. 1500 tourists sounds like a lot! Pull in all the people to support it.... Money starts being made, then other developers come in... I just hope they have a long term plan to handle all that.

Glad I'll be diving there in a few weeks!