KP Issues Special COVID-19 SOPs for Tourist Spots

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Culture and Tourism Authority (KPCTA) has issued special standard operating procedures (SOPs) to protect tourists from the rapidly-spreading third wave of the coronavirus pandemic.

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The following are some of the instructions that have been issued for hotel owners, management, and tourists:

• Ensure that drivers wear masks and gloves.
• All restaurants and hotel owners are to display instructions for basic protective measures from the coronavirus at prominent places.
• Mandatory temperature checks of tourists must be taken at entry points.
• Assist a guest suspected of having contracted the coronavirus in going to a nearby local healthcare center, and keep him/her away from healthy guests.
• Distribute awareness pamphlets and display awareness banners at various places.
• Restaurant owners must provide safe, hygienic environments to guests.
• Marking on the floor to maintain social distancing at the reception must be ensured.
• Ensure that desk staff wears masks and gloves.
• Keep sanitizers for guests to use.
• Ensure both guests and employees use sanitizers after a cash transaction.
• Not more than two people are to be allowed in a single occupancy room, and not more than four people in a double occupancy room.

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The document also detailed that tour operators, tour guides, and travel agents are to inform all the tourists about the coronavirus SOPs before they plan to visit a place.