There has been a 45 percent drop in tourist visa extension applications in 2020, Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Jaime Morente said.
“We hope that the tourism industry will finally rebound at least by the second or third quarter of 2021 and the Philippines will once again open its doors to foreign visitors,” he said in a statement.
Morente revealed that in 2020 the BI’s Tourist Visa Section (TVS) processed a total of 240,276 applications for extension of stay of tourists.
The BI chief pointed out this is 44.67 percent lower than the 434,251 applications processed in 2019.
Morente said the sharp decline was expected due to travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 virus pandemic.
“International travel restrictions remain in place even as we anticipate a gradual lifting of these restrictions this year as the vaccines against COVID-19 begin to arrive,” he noted.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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