Balik sa Bohol online sale

Gives 70% tour discounts

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, Feb 13 (PIA) – Enjoy massive discounts and great once-in-a-lifetime offer as Bohol puts up its first ever tourism campaign after coronavirus disease shut down its premier economic activity in March of last year.

Balik sa Bohol, the online sale which starts February 21 and ends in March 14, is now a selling anthem from possibly a last song syndrome for tourists stepping off from the memorable river cruise one lazy afternoon.

Participated in by 13 resorts, hotels and tourism accommodation establishments, one adventure park, and 6 local tour operators all which have earned their Department of Tourism (DOT) Certificates of Authority to Operate, or the local government permits and each holders of the Ultimate Bohol Experience (UBE) seal, Balik sa Bohol Online Sale group promised to make tourists’ return to Bohol equally as exciting and memorable if not more than the past experience, organizers said.

First of Bohol’s possible many tempting offers for tourists to come, the online sale is supported by the DOT, Tourism Promotions Board, Asia Pacific Airlines, DOT 7, Balik sa Bohol came at a time when Bohol has announced the need for only a negative COVID test results via the cheaper saliva-Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR), a confirmed booking for accommodations and the Bohol Tour QR Code.

Balik sa Bohol sale buyers need to log on to https://traveloco.ph/balikbohol to get as much as 70% off on room rates, tours and other allied tourism services on their visit to Bohol.

The offer is also good for Boholanos in Bohol, according to Governor Arthur Yap.

Everyone buying the Bohol visit and tour however has to be guided by the tourist bubble concept.

By tourist bubble concept, it means that a COVID negative tourist has to stay together with his group, travel only on travels organized by a DOT accredited tour operator on board a DOT accredited transport provider and go to tours only in designated stops, never straying away from their established itinerary.

It may be recalled that as early as November 15, 2020, Bohol has allowed tourists who attend meetings, incentives, conventions and conferences and exhibits (MICE) and events to come to Bohol in the travel bubble concept.

A few days later, following the same concept, Bohol again issued the same to free and independent travelers.

This is as long as the tourist can present to Bohol a negative COVID test results via an RT PCR and the test taken 72 hours before flying to Bohol, he can present a confirmed hotel booking and has a registered Bohol Tourist QR Code.

This is in efforts to bring back the brisk tourism activities that has fed so many Boholanos who are working in the different tourism services designed to make a Bohol vacation as seamless and as memorable as can be.

Already being seen by the DOT as among the country’s leading new normal destinations, Bohol sits with Palawan and Boracay, according to PTB Atty Antonette Velasco.

In recent developments, with the molecular RT PCR test a bit more expensive and possibly holding tourists from truly enjoying a break from being detained in their homes, Bohol has okayed the use of saliva RT PCR and in fact, allows tourists to stay longer than five days and go off their tourism bubble when they can present a negative COVID in a repeat saliva RTPCR on their fifth days of stay here.

With a negative COVID test result on his repeat test after his fifth days of stay here, a tourist can already even go out of his travel bubble, according to Executive Order No 9, issued last week. (rahchiu/PIA-7/Bohol)

BALIK SA BOHOL. For the first time after almost a year, Bohol opens an irresistible offer of up to 70% discount on accommodations, tours and other services to bring back the local tourists and relive their experience in Bohol. Set in COVID times, the tourists however need to follow new normal protocols and travel in tourism bubbles, as the pandemic has also allowed Boholanos to develop more interesting spots. (rahchiu/PIA-7/Bohol)

TRAVEL BUBBLE. Tourists to Bohol can travel to sites and destinations that have been granted by DOT the Certificate Authority to Operate, or LGU permitted and UBE Seal grantee from the provincial government, as long as they do not veer away from the tour itinerary provided by their DOT-accredited tour agent and travel only in designated areas like Lamanoc caves in Anda with DOT-accredited transport providers. (rahc /PIA-7/Bohol)