As tourism across the country set to open on May 24, the National Commandand Operation Center (NCOC) on Saturday announced guidelines for the sectorin order to control the spread of COVID-19.

Under the SOPs, hotels, and guesthouses will be required to demand negativecoronavirus reports and CNIC from tourists before booking rooms for them.

Those who have completed their vaccination will submit a vaccinationcertificate to the hotels, it added.

Furthermore, rooms without vaccination certificates will not be booked forpeople aged above 50.

NCOC added that hotels, after July 1, will not allot rooms without avaccination certificate to people above 40 years of age.

A room can be booked for a single person or for two adults and children agebelow 12.

Tour operators and hotel management will be required to provide data of alltourist travelers, and foreign tourists will be required to comply withtest, quarantine and vaccination policies, said NCOC.

Fore foreign tourists, inbound passenger policy regarding test andquarantine will be implemented.