Philippine Ministry of Tourism: Tourism enterprises do not need to show vaccination certificates

The Philippine tourism department said on Monday, March 6 that as tourist destinations in the Philippines become more open to tourists, tourism companies no longer require vaccination certificates and masks.

In order to support "the national government to relax domestic COVID-19 restrictions", the Ministry of Tourism issued a memorandum circular (MC) 2023-0002 to further relax the health and safety guidelines governing the operation of tourism agencies.

The Philippine Tourism Secretary said: The announcement is a follow-up to their efforts to promote the opening of the Philippines to the tourism industry through the issuance of regulations to help tourism stakeholders solve economic difficulties. The newly released guidance on relaxing the health and safety of tourism agencies strengthens the Ministry of Tourism's commitment to addressing the economic difficulties of the tourism industry caused by the pandemic blockade and restrictions. The Philippines is open to tourism and is keeping up with the global practice of tourism businesses that are already open around the world.

on the other hand, last month, the security seal secretariat of the department of trade and industry announced the cessation of the security seal certification scheme, which confirms that agencies meet the minimum public health standards set by the government and use or integrate their contact tracing with staysafe.ph. At the same time, the Ministry of Tourism ordered the cancellation of the previous government's requirement that tourism agencies install plastic, acrylic barriers and partitions in designated areas, and also ordered the removal of signs, visual cues and other mandatory agreement facilities, which have been The government relaxed.