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Overseas vacationers are requested to pay P300 for environmental charges, whereas P100 for home vacationers. Terminal charges are pegged at P100 every.
BORACAY, Philippines – The native authorities of Malay, Aklan started to implement a unified ticketing system in Boracay, Saturday, August 17.
Malay Mayor Frolibar Bautista stated in a cellphone interview that the Malay tourism workplace has launched his Government Order No. 32, which mandates vacationers going by the Tabon Port to pay environmental and terminal charges by a Boracay app or by eBoracay.
Overseas vacationers are requested to pay P300 for environmental charges, whereas P100 for home vacationers. Terminal charges are pegged at P100 every. Residents bearing identification playing cards with addresses in Aklan are exempted from paying such charges.
“This obligatory fee efficient instantly is a part of our broader plan for a unified ticketing system for Boracay to ease journey,” Bautista stated.
However the rollout of the brand new system at present faces some points, amongst them being the unavailability of the app to IOS customers.
The plan to implement the unified ticketing system was mentioned throughout the Boracay-Caticlan Sustainable Improvement Council final April 2 of this yr.
A part of the unified ticketing system plan as effectively is to combine the acquisition of boat tickets which prices P50 every. At present, the fee of terminal and environmental charges on the Caticlan is thru handbook fee the place vacationers has to queue lengthy traces.
Advisory confusion
The rollout of the brand new system additionally coincided with a port change announcement from the Philippine Coast Guard that added confusion.
In June, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) transferred the boat operation from Caticlan to Cagban to Tabo-Tambisaan Port due to the onset of habagat season.
However on August 17, the mayor stated that that they had acquired complaints from the vacationers due to the surprising announcement from the PCG saying that the switch can be finished on the Caticlan port that day as an alternative of the Tabo Port.
Citing the climate forecast from PAGASA, Coast Guard Lieutenant Junior Grade John Lawrence Banzuela stated, “With coordination from the provincial authorities, LGU (native authorities unit) Malay and the CBTMPC (Caticlan-Boracay Tranport Multi-purpose Cooperative), please learn that the journeys of motorboat from Tabon port-Tambisaan Port can be transferred to Caticlan-Cagban Jetty Port and vice versa, efficient August 17 at 6:00 am till additional discover.”
The PCG posted the advisory at 10 pm on Friday, August 16.
Banzuela is the Aklan Coast Guard station commander.
Mayor Bautista stated that they “didn’t anticipate the advisory of the PCG.”
“However, we wish the general public to know that paying on-line of environmental and terminal charges can be applied if ever the boat operation was transferred to Tabon port, [and] some Malay staff can be stationed within the space to help,” Bautista added.
The port switch created confusion within the implementation of the app-based unified ticketing scheme, as there is no such thing as a order but mandating the funds on the Caticlan port by way of the brand new ticketing system.
The mayor stated, “I can be developing quickly with one other government order mandating the fee of surroundings and terminal charges on the Caticlan Jetty Port to finish the section of the unified ticketing system,” Bautista added. – Rappler.com
