Gutierrez says health alert system, Guam s high vaccination rate could help revive tourism kuam.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kuam.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The newly passed $1.9 trillion federal pandemic relief bill will provide $661 million for Guam, said Guam Visitors Bureau President Carl Gutierrez, who said Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero has agreed to give the visitor agency $20 million to shore up its operations, “so it can aggressively market Guam,” when the island reopens to tourism.
Gutierrez, who gave a brief presentation during Thursday s GVB board meeting, said the visitor agency had not been eligible for funding from past federal relief bills, but is eligible during this round.
The visitor agency is funded by the hotel occupancy tax, but most of the island’s hotel rooms have been unused, and untaxed, during the past year because of the pandemic shutdown.
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2020/12/18 12:06 Guam is a tourism hotspot for Taiwanese. (Pixabay photo) Guam is a tourism hotspot for Taiwanese. (Pixabay photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Guam Governor Lourdes Leon Guerrero revealed Wednesday (Dec. 16) that she plans to visit Taiwan in January to discuss a two-way tourism bubble. During a press conference, the governor said the U.S. territory could reopen to tourism in the first quarter of 2021 and that she is planning to lead a delegation to Taiwan next month for travel bubble talks. She said the East Asian nation of 23 million is not a concern for her because it has successfully contained the spread of coronavirus and recorded only a few hundred positive cases and seven deaths.