New requirements for international travelers to visit Belize

Tourists who wish to dive into Belize’s Caribbean coastline will need to make passes with government-approved tour operators.

Belize officially opened Philip Goldson International Airport (BZE) to foreign visitors for a leisure trip on October 1, 2020, lifting all past travel bans due to the COVID-19 pandemic and limiting tourists to hotels approved by Belize’s Safe Corridor program.

READ MORE NEWS HERECurrently, all inbound passengers must provide proof of negative COVID-19 PCR test returns within 96 hours of arrival or rapid antigen test results received no more than 48 hours before travel. Companies must also have rooms at hotels approved by Belize’s newly extended Safe Corridor program to enter the nation.Here’s everything we know so far about going to Belize.  Requirements for International travelersInternational passengers must have passed Gold Standard accommodations booked before they can get to Belize. Within 96 hours of their flight to Belize, passengers must also take a COVID-19 PCR test and upload the appropriate information to the Belize Health App within 72 hours before departure. Rapid antigen test decisions taken no more than 48 hours before travel are also allowed. Face masks are mandatory throughout airports, and passengers are told to maintain six feet of distance from other travelers.

Upon reaching the Belize airport, travelers will also proceed to a health screening area to verify their certified COVID-19 test results. People arriving in Belize without test results will be required to get a swab test at the cost of $50 inside the airport’s testing area.

If tourists get positive results during their trip, they will be placed in a minimum 14-day quarantine at their booked hotel—at their own expense—until the Ministry of Health permits them to leave. If travelers show any signs during their stay, the Ministry of Health also maintains the right to test them and put them in quarantine until negative results are obtained.