The mayor of Malay town in Aklan province where Boracay Island is located said all tourists have to pay a P100 travel insurance each prior to entering the country’s most popular resort-island for their “safety.”
“Yes, tourists have to pay insurance. It’s for their protection,” confirmed Mayor Frolibar Bautista.
The travel insurance is being collected at the jetty port in mainland Malay and is on top of the environmental and terminal fees being paid by tourists. “It’s a private company. The local government has no share whatsoever,” Bautista said in a phone interview on Saturday, Nov. 26, with the Manila Bulletin.
Bautista said that payment of travel insurance is not mandatory despite signing the implementing rules and regulations of the ordinance. In particular, Section 5 states that travel insurance must be paid by “all incoming tourists to the island of Boracay.”
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