Support establishments with safety seal ‘badges’: DOT

MANILA – Because the Philippines step by step restarts hobble actions with the easing of mobility restrictions, the Division of Tourism (DOT) has encouraged vacationers to patronize amenities and institutions carrying the manager-issued Security Seal certificates.

“Hinihikayat po natin ang ating mga shoppers (We support our shoppers), particularly folks who will probably be traveling in the sizable hobble months, summer time is coming, we should always always patronize amenities and institutions who’ve apart from for having the DOT accreditation have a Security Seal real to guarantee them that they’ll be in real arms, that they’ll be taking part in a real vacation or a better service for them,” DOT director for tourism requirements and regulations Virgilio Maguigad talked about in a virtual forum Thursday.

The safety seal program is a voluntary program to certify that an establishment is compliant with the minimum public properly being requirements role by the manager and uses or integrates its contact tracing with StaySafe.ph.

For the reason that delivery of this system, some 1,612 DOT-authorized tourism enterprises have utilized for the certification.

On the very least 1,582 seals had been already issued, while 30 applications are both for evaluation or for processing.

Maguigad talked about Metro Manila, Western Visayas and Region 4-A (Calabarzon) have potentially the most preference of seals launched, with 264, 168, and 161, respectively.

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The legit talked about here is equally vital for the tourism institutions as this serves as a “badge” to indicate their strict compliance to minimum properly being and security requirements.

“Our wish on the DOT is, with the reopening of the tourism alternate, we’d have a better economic system maybe this coming year. These forms of tourism workers are relying on the resurgence of the alternate kasi maraming nasalanta na kabuhayan dahil sa pandemya (because of many companies had been plagued by the pandemic),” he talked about.

“This Security Seal program is one technique to support our vacationers and remark them that they’ll be traveling in real environments,” he added.

The seal is succesful for six months from the date of bother, apart from for these of tourism enterprises which will be succesful for 3 hundred and sixty five days. (PNA)