Baguio City could open up its parks and offer its cool climate only to visitors from the Ilocos region once it decides to revive tourism.
Within this “tourism bubble,” residents in the Ilocos region can take short holidays at select destinations in Baguio and beaches in La Union and Ilocos Norte provinces.
Baguio has developed a digital registration and booking system, called “Visita” , which will be given a series of test runs and debugging by middle of September. The number of cases here exceeded 250 last week when mass testing and contact tracing analysts found a clustering of patients at homes, banks, hospitals and grocery stores.
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