translated from Spanish: Unique Certificate of Safe Tourism: What does the project say?

The national senator for San Luis Adolfo Rodríguez Saá proposed a “Unique Certificate of Safe Tourism” with the aim of establishing health standards that provide security to potential tourists to boost the reactivation of the post-pandemic sector. For the legislator, this initiative must be provided within the framework of a national Safe Tourism programme, which designs “reliable instruments for companies, agencies and jurisdictions” to certify their quality systems, products, services and tourism processes according to safety and health standards at the “national and international” level. In his bill, Rodríguez Saá marks the need to “provide a safe and protective service for tourists and their employees”, unifying the criteria to generate a unique certificate at the national level that incorporates “the provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires”. He stressed that it is “essential to implement rapidly and effectively the certification of health quality in tourist services”, so that at the time of the reactivation of the sector, “most establishments can have the “single certificate of safe tourism”. Rodríguez Saá, noted that looking ahead to the day after the coronavirus pandemic, “the tourism world has begun to move towards the development of ‘Covid-free’ certifications or compliance with health standards to provide safety to potential tourists”. In addition to progress in some districts of the country “it is necessary to mention that there are also several private sector initiatives”. Among them was the case of the Association of Tourism Hotels of the Argentine Republic (AHT), which launched the protocol of “Good Practices for Hotel cleaning”, where it details the suggestions of the entity for a safe operation in its more than 300 hotels represented, the senator noted. He recalled that the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) “has been pointing out from the beginning of the pandemic” that tomorrow’s tourist will demand health guarantees at the place he visits, and that implies “attractiveness, hotels, transport and food establishments.”

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