President Marcos has institutionalized the country's Electronic Travel Information (eTravel) System to ensure border control, health surveillance, and tourism statistics analysis, among others. File photo Based on Administrative Order (AO) No. 24. signed by Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin on...
Senator Grace Poe on Thursday, August 29 urged the Bureau of Immigration (BI) to address travelers’ complaints pertaining to the country’s eTravel system. Poe said the BI should consider asking the Department of Information and Communications (DICT) for help to ensure an efficient data...
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte (MANILA BULLETIN) The World Health Organization's (WHO) lifting of the public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) declaration in connection with Covid-19 should prod Philippine authorities to do away with the eTravel requirement for...
(Unsplash) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte is calling on government to get rid of its tedious eTravel requirement for incoming international travellers despite the rise in local Covid-19 infections late last month. Villafuerte's main reason for asking this is to entice more...
“One less thing to worry (and carry) as you don’t need to bring a pen and fill up a paper departure card when you leave the country. Starting May 1, 2023, passengers will only need to answer an e-departure form via the online portal eTravel ( [ https://etravel.gov.ph ](https://etravel.gov.ph)...
Malacañang said that the Private Sector Advisory Council (PSAC) was working on a mobile application called "e-Travel," which would integrate all of the information on immigration, customs, health, and quarantine of travelers entering the Philippines. OFWs at the Ninoy Aquino International...
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) launched eTravel, a contact tracing platform and health declaration checklist for inbound travelers. “The interconnection, the data-sharing and the synergy of all different departments that belong to different silos will now be...
