Manila, March 31 -- The Department of Tourism in Region 4B (DOT-4B) has assisted 6,371 tourists stranded, mostly in Palawan province.
The DOT southwestern Tagalog regional office, whose areas of responsibility include Occidental Mindoro, Oriental Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, and Palawan (MIMAROPA), recently set up a command center in coordination with the region's local government units (LGUs) and facilitated the transfer of the stranded foreigners of different nationalities through 87 recovery flights of various airlines and chartered private planes in coordination with the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) and Immigration authorities.
The daily recovery flights were conducted from March 15-28, in partnership with Air S...