The Philippines' once pristine island of Boracay has become extremely overdeveloped, with its famous beach now choked by sewage and too many bars, the country's new tourism minister said Friday.
In a candid interview with AFP, Tourism Secretary Alberto Lim suggested it was time tourists visited equally beautiful beaches in thecountry other than Boracay, which the government said drew 650,000 tourists last year.
"If you go to Boracay you'd love the beach, you'd love the night life and the good restaurants. But it's so dense, it's so dense," Lim said.
"It is now, you know, too commercial. It's become Phuket," he said, referring to the much larger Thai beach resort island.
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