How to Get Tourist QR Code in Samal Island?

If next in your bucket list is a trip to Samal Island and are seeking for a way to make your booking in any resorts in the island, try the Samal Island Tourist QR Code—a simplified method consisting of five easy-to-follow steps to getting your reservation done.

Here are the five steps to follow:

Step 1. Contact the resort

Showing an interest to get to Samal requires a conversation to the resort with which you desire a reservation. To validate your identity, expect to be asked a single valid ID. But also expect to provide any other necessary documents upon booking for further validation. It does not matter whether you are a resident of Samal or not, everyone is mandated to go through the same authentication method.

Step 2. Recording of guest details

It is standard operating procedure that every guest who books a reservation to have their information logged. On the part of the Resort Administrator, this would involve the encoding of guest information in the i-TRACS booking system.

Step 3. City Investment and Tourism Office validation

With your valid information provided, the City Investment Tourism Office (CITO) will proceed to do some assessments in order to validate your application. Depending on the overall volume of applications, but a typical process of this nature would only require no more than 24 hours.

If you find yourself in a position where you need to contact CITO directly, you may do so via the following contact details: 09165234644; 09663053108; 09610806407.

Step 4. Tourist QR Code distribution

If your application passed for approval, the resort shall inform you about proceeding to the next step, which involves you receiving an email containing a Tourist QR Code to complete the booking process.

Step 5. Present QR Code, Valid ID

With your booking finally completed, bring a printed copy of the QR Code as well as your actual ID and present it at the wharf for scanning.

And, that is it.

UPDATE (May 3, 2021): Guidelines for guest outside Davao Region

Below are the additional tourism guidelines: