This weekend it was announced that the Guam Aurora Resort and Spa will be closing its hotel rooms and will be suspending its main operations on June 1, although the restaurant and spa located in the hotel will remain open for business.  The closing of the hotel rooms is said to be only temporary, and although there is no definitive date as to when operations will resume the hotel’s general manager stated it would most likely occur when the local economy on Guam starts to pick up again when the military relocates to the island.

Declining tourism arrivals and hotel bookings because of the decline in the global economy and fears of the current swine flu epidemic have been contributing factors.

Over the last year, Guam’s tourism industry, as well as the global tourism industry, has been negatively effected by the downturn in the global economy.  In addition, recent news of the swine flu epidemic have magnified the problems for tourism on Guam as Japanese visitors decide to travel less because of fears, even though there have been no reported cases of swine flu on Guam to date.

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