CHAPTER IV

RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

In this chapter, the Results from the gathered data was discussed.

The impact of Pandemic in Operation Status in Hotel Sector of Puerto Princesa city using
the percentile rank

Table 1.1 The impact of Pandemic in Operation Status

IMPACT Frequency n=9 PERCENTAGE

Agree Neutral Disagree Agree Neutral Disagree
(3) (2) (1) (3) (2) (1)
The company is on a regular 1 8 11% 89%
operation.
Manpower are on 100% work force. 9 100%
The company is converted as 3 6 33% 69%
Quarantine Facility.
The company implemented of 3 6 33% 69%
Work from Home arrangement.
The company Lay off of Employees. 1 7 1 11% 78% 11%
The room occupancy is now limited. 5 2 2 56% 22% 22%
The bookings and reservations 5 3 1 56% 33% 11%
were reduced.
There is no operations since 1 1 7 11% 11% 78%
pandemic.
The working hours is reduced. 5 1 3 56% 11% 33%
The company is on Permanent 1 8 11% 89%
closure due to pandemic.

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Figure 1. Graph of The impact of Pandemic in Operation Status of Hotel Sector in Puerto
Princesa city

Table 1.1 and Figure 1 shows poor operational status when it comes to hotel sector in Puerto
Princesa city. 89% of the regular operation are suspended and the manpower is greatly
affected, the data shows that most of the personnel are affected. 33% of the hotels agreed
to be converted to quarantine facility. Most of the hotels were not sure what are they
going to do with their employees, 78% or 7 out of 9 responded neutral. 56% of the hotel
operators agreed that the room occupancy are limited, working hours, reservation and
bookings is reduced. Due to the continuing effect of pandemic 89% of the hotel
operations was already closed.

Table 1.2 The impact of Pandemic in Operation Status in Hotel Sector of Puerto Princesa
city using the mean. Data extracted from the google survey form.

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 Hotel Hotel Hotel Hotel Hotel Hotel Hotel Hotel Hotel
OPERATION 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
The company is on a regular
operation. 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Manpower are on 100% work
force. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
The company is converted as
Quarantine Facility. 3 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 3
The company implemented
of Work from Home
arrangement. 1 1 3 1 3 1 1 1 3
The company Lay off of
Employees. 2 2 2 2 2 1 3 2 2
The room occupancy is now
limited. 1 3 3 3 2 3 1 3 2
The bookings and
reservations were reduced. 2 3 3 3 2 3 1 3 2
There is no operations since
pandemic. 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 1
The working hours is
reduced. 1 3 3 3 2 3 1 3 1
The company is on
Permanent closure due to
pandemic. 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1
Mean 1.5 1.7 1.9 1.7 1.8 1.7 1.6 1.7 1.7

Table 1.2. shows that most of the hotels during pandemic are not in operations resulted of
manpower laid- off. Some of the hotels were converted to quarantine facilities to
maintain the daily expenses incurred of the hotels. Office Personnel resorted to work
from home and reduced hours of work to prevent the spreading of virus among personnel
inside the workplace and it limits the quantity of work an employee perform in a day. No
bookings and reservations allowed especially on mass gatherings. Because of this
pandemic some of the hotels were now for closure.

The Impact of Pandemic in Revenue Status

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Table 2.1. The Impact of pandemic to the revenue of hotels in Puerto Princesa city.

IMPACT on REVENUE Frequency N=9 PERCENTAGE

Less than 20%
20%-40%
40%-60%
60%-80% 7 78%
More than 80% 2 22%
TOTAL 9 100%

Figure 2 The graph of the impact of pandemic The Impact of Pandemic in Revenue Status.

PERCENTAGE OF REVENUE/LOSS DUE TO

COVID-19 PANDEMIC
8

0
Less than 20% 20%-40% 40%-60% 60%-80% More than 80%

Table 2.2. The Impact of Pandemic in Revenue Status, this data was extracted from the
google survey form.

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 Hotel Hote Hote Hote Hotel Hote Hote Hote Hote TOTAL
Loss on REVENUE 1 l2 l3 l4 5 l6 l7 l8 l9
Less than 20%                  
20%-40%                  
40%-60%                  
60%-80% 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7
More than 80% 1 1 2

Total 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9

Table 2.1, Table 2.2 and Figure 2 show the impact of pandemic not only to the operations but
also the revenue of the hotel as a whole. As of the date of the survey the loss on revenue of most
of the hotels reached up to 60%-80% which resulted to the closure of the establishments.

Government Assistance to the Hotel Sector

Table 3.1. The Assistance employed by the Local Government to the Hotel Sector

ASSISTANCE Frequency n=9 PERCENTAGE

Agree Neutral Disagree Agree Neutral Disagree
(3) (2) (1) (3) (2) (1)
The company was given some 9 100%
financial programs (CAMP 1, CAMP
2 and Small Business wage subsidy
or SBWS)
Tulong Panghanapbuhay (TUPAD) 3 6 33% 69%
are also provided.
Tax waivers/Temporary tax breaks 1 8 11% 89%
is extended.
Reduction of Tariff. 9 !00%
The Department of Trade and 9 100%
Industry (DTI) give loans to the
businesses that are affected by this
pandemic.

Figure 3. Graph of the Assistance of Local Government to the Hotel Sector

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 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE TO THE HOTEL SECTOR
10
8
6
4
2
0

Agree Neutral Disagree

Table 3.2. The data was extracted from the google survey form which shows the Assistance
of Local Government to the Hotel Sectors.

Hotel Hote Hotel Hote Hote Hote Hotel Hote Hote  

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE 1 l2 3 l4 l5 l6 7 l8 l9
The company was given some financial
programs (CAMP 1, CAMP 2 and Small
Business wage subsidy or SBWS) 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
Tulong Panghanapbuhay (TUPAD) are
also provided. 1 1 3 1 1 3 1 3 1
Tax waivers/Temporary tax breaks is
extended. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3

Reduction of Tariff. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
The Department of Trade and Industry
(DTI) give loans to the businesses that
are affected by this pandemic. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

  1.4 1.4 1.8 1.4 1.4 1.8 1.4 1.8 1.8

Table 3.1 and Figure 3 shows that the only help receive with a 100 % assistance in terms of
financial programs (CAMP 1, CAMP 2 and Small Business wage subsidy or SBWS provided by
the local government to the hotel sector.

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Significant relationship between the local government’s assistance to the hotel sector’s
status

Data Analysis >Correlation

LOCAL GOVERNMENT HOTEL SECTOR'S
  ASSISTANCE STATUS
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE 1
HOTEL SECTOR'S STATUS 0.424264069 1

Pearson correlation coefficient r 0.424264069

N 9

T statistic 1.239590807

Degree of freedom 8

P-value 0.125127535

Data Analysis > t-Test: Paired Two Sample for Means

  Variable 1 Variable 2
Mean 1.577777778 1.7
Variance 0.044444444 0.0125
Observations 9 9
Pearson Correlation 0.424264069
Hypothesized Mean Difference 0
df 8
t Stat -1.907641933
P(T<=t) one-tail 0.046434036
t Critical one-tail 1.859548038
P(T<=t) two-tail 0.092868072
t Critical two-tail 2.306004135