Chilean President Gabriel Boric presided over a ceremony to reopen Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, and resume commercial air service to the island territory.
After two-year closure due to the pandemic, tourism-related economic activity can come back to the island.
"The reactivation of the tourism industry is fundamental to the country's economic recovery," Boric said at a ceremony in Santiago's Plaza de la Constitución next to La Moneda Palace.
"We know that we need to grow and that tourism is also a green industry that employs mostly women, that it is an industry . . .
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