EXEMPTING FOREIGN TOURISTS AND TRAVELERS FROM THE PAYMENT OF HOTEL ROOM TAX FOR THE DURATION OF THEIR STAY IN THE PHILIPPINES

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 31
• Sections: 2

Preamble

To further promote the growth of tourism in the country, I,

FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of

the powers vested in me by the

Constitution as Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of the

Philippines, and pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 21,

1972, and General Order No. 1, as amended, dated September 22, 1972, do

hereby order and decree:

Section 1

SECTION 1. Foreign tourists and travelers shall be exempt from the

payment of any and all hotel room tax for the entire period of their

stay in the country.

"SEC. 2. This Decree shall take effect immediately.

Done in the City of Manila, this 27th day of October, in the year of

Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-two.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS

President

Republic of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR

Executive Secretary