Full Title
EXEMPTING FOREIGN TOURISTS AND TRAVELERS FROM THE PAYMENT OF HOTEL ROOM TAX FOR THE DURATION OF THEIR STAY IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Executive Issuance Type
Presidential Decree
President
Marcos, Ferdinand E.

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Issuance Category
Executive Issuance

Full Text of Issuance

MALACAÑANG 
Manila

PRESIDENTIAL DECREE No. 31

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

To further promote the growth of tourism in the country, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of thePhilippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution as Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces of thePhilippines, and pursuant to Proclamation No. 1081, dated September 22, 1972 do hereby order and decree.

Section 1. Foreign tourists and travellers shall be exempt from the payment of any and all hotel room tax for the entire period of their stay in the country.

Section 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 of the Philippines

By the President:
(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary

Source: Malacañang Records Office