95% OF MEGAWORLD HOTELS STAFF- NOW VACCINATED
Eleven properties of the Philippines’ largest local hotel chain receive the ‘Safety Seal’ certification from the Department of Tourism
Since the start of the pandemic, people were afraid to go out, take leisure trips and staycations because the dreadful virus might hit them. I, myself had been extra careful when going out especially when the vaccines were not available yet. Luckily, they have arrived and vaccinations have already been rolling out all over the country.
MEGAWORLD VAXXED
Megaworld Hotels & Resorts, the country’s largest homegrown hotel chain today, has vaccinated 95% of its 1,154 hotel-based staff and personnel who are actively
working in the various properties during this pandemic.
These include teams from the front office, housekeeping, food and beverage, engineering, sales and
marketing, finance, executive, human resources, and security in different hotel locations around the
country.
Megaworld Hotels & Resorts has 11 existing properties across the country: Richmonde Hotel Ortigas in
Pasig City, Eastwood Richmonde Hotel in Quezon City, and Richmonde Hotel Iloilo; Savoy Hotel Manila in
Newport City, Savoy Hotel Boracay in Malay, Aklan, and Savoy Hotel Mactan in Cebu; Belmont Hotel
Manila in Newport City and Belmont Hotel Boracay in Malay, Aklan;
Twin Lakes Hotel in Laurel, Batangas; Hotel Lucky Chinatown in Binondo, Manila; and Kingsford Hotel in
the Entertainment City, Parañaque.
HOPE FOR HERD IMMUNITY
“Herd immunity in all our hotel properties across the country has always been our ultimate goal to
ensure not only the safety and well-being of our staff but also of all our guests who stay in our hotels.
Under our Vaxxed and Ready Campaign, the group has been very active in our vaccination program to
ensure our contribution to the recovery of the hospitality industry,” says Cleofe Albiso, group general
manager, Megaworld Hotels.
Currently, Twin Lakes Hotel near Tagaytay and Belmont Hotel Boracay are open to guests for leisure and
staycations. The other hotels only accept both Filipino and foreign guests arriving from other countries
who are required to complete the government-mandated quarantine days.
“We have been getting sustained bookings left and right for our staycation hotels in Tagaytay and
Boracay. This is a good sign to the country’s tourism industry because we can still see that travel remains
one of the things people are willing to spend on even during a pandemic,” explains Albiso.
SAFE HOTEL EXPERIENCE
All 11 hotels under the Megaworld Hotels & Resorts brand have been given the ‘Safety Seal’ certification
from the Department of Tourism, which means that the properties are compliant to the Minimum Public
Health Standards (MPHS), including the adoption and use of the StaySafe.ph application in all properties
for the purpose of contact tracing.
“We go beyond just compliance because we have innovative programs in place to ensure that we
provide the safest working environment for our employees and the safest place to stay for all our guests,” Albiso adds.
Megaworld Hotels & Resorts currently has a portfolio of around 4,000 rooms in key tourism destinations
around the country, making it the biggest single operator of 100% Filipino-owned homegrown hotel
brands in the Philippines. The company has announced that it is adding more hotel properties in the
next five years, particularly in Boracay, Iloilo, Bacolod, Cebu, and in the bustling Entertainment City in
the Manila Bay area.