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BORACAY, Aklan: Internet search engine Yahoo! and
popular website AskMen.com included this resort island on their list
of the world’s 10 best beaches.
Yahoo! ranked Boracay seventh
while AskMen.com, which claims more than five million site visitors
monthly, placed Boracay on the eighth spot.
According to Web traffic analysis
companies, Yahoo! has been the most visited website on the Internet,
with more than 412 million unique users.
AskMen.com, on the other hand, is
a Canadian-based, free online men’s Web portal. Its sections
feature topics that are pertinent to men. Among its sections are
Fashion & Lifestyle, Health & Sports and Dating & Love.
With this positive exposure in
the worldwide Web, Gov. Carlito Marquez of Aklan is confident that
business will be good in this resort island.
Boracay is famous for its powdery
white sand, pristine waters and lush tropical forests.
In coming out with their lists,
Yahoo! and AskMen.com emphasized the “numerous positive
feedback” they received from website readers and the wide range of
available attractions each chosen beach offers.
In late 1980s, this resort island
was named by two travel magazines as one of the world’s top 10
beaches, too. The title disappeared after the issue on coliform
contamination hit this resort island in mid-1990s.
Marquez attributed Boracay’s
positive image abroad to the Department of Tourism’s aggressive
promotional activities.
Boracay’s two primary tourism
beaches, White Beach and Bulabog Beach, are located on opposite
sides of the island’s narrow central area. White Beach faces
westwards and Bulabog Beach faces eastwards. The island also has
several other beaches.
White Beach is the main tourism
beach. It is a bit over four kilometers long and is lined with
resorts, hotels, lodging houses, restaurants, and other
tourism-related businesses.
In the central portion, for about
two kilometers, there is a footpath known as the beachfront path
separating the beach itself from the establishments located along
it.
North and south of the beachfront
path, beachfront establishments do literally front along the beach
itself.
Several roads and paths connect
the beachfront path with Boracay’s main road, a vehicular road
which runs the length of the island. At the extreme northern end of
White Beach, a footpath runs around the headland there and connects
White Beach with Diniwid Beach.
Across the island from White
Beach is Bulabog Beach, a secondary tourism beach and Boracay’s
main windsurfing and kiteboarding area.
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