Tourism hotspot to reopen after cleanup

Boracay island will have fewer hotels and a cap on number of visitors

MANILA - The Philippines will reopen its crown jewel resort island Boracay to holidaymakers on Friday, after a six-month cleanup aimed at repairing the damage inflicted by years of unrestrained mass tourism.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the island shuttered in April for a major effort to fortify weak infrastructure and crack down on the rampant overdevelopment that had left it, what he termed, a "cesspool".