No exact date from this 2018 Galápaid requires private health insurance for foreign tourists visiting the «enchanted islands».
UPDATEÓN 10/09/2018:
The Gal Governmentápaid adó today on its website that mandatory health insurance has been postponed in its implementation for tourists visiting the islands, no exact date of operation. The details: http://www.gobiernogalapagos.gob.ec/comunicado-sobre-requisito-de-seguro-de-salud-privado-para-ingreso-a-galapagos/
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This is a new requirement, that has no relationón with him international health insurance for tourists visiting Ecuador, which remainedó repealed and not to enterá in force.
The Special Regime Government Council Galápaid – CREG informó during August 2018 on the updated requirements for foreign tourists visiting Galápayments from November of this same toñO.
Through Ordinance No. 001-CGREG-XI-V-2018, the plenary session of the Governing Council, issuedó a new Immigration Regulationón and Residence in the Rémoan Special of the Province of Galápaid.
This specifies the requirements with which you will haveán that all tourists who visit the Archipiélago. The artíass 48 indica:
- Having acquired the traffic control cardánsito;
- Round trip ticket by any routeía
- private health insurance;
- Book in one or más accommodations or tourist accommodation establishmentsílegally authorized aestheticians, to spend the night; O,
- invitation letterósubscribed by a permanent or temporary resident in the province of Galápaid, what a dutyá be extended in the format established for this purpose by the Secretariatía Técynic of the Governing Council.
Of all these requirements, where c is addedécitizen dulaía passport for all travelers, the point is waived 3 ÚONLY, for Ecuadorian tourists.
private health insurance
From the 1 of November, all foreign tourists entering through Baltra airports, San Cristóbal the isabella, dutyán accredit all the previously numbered requirements.
This new obligation for foreigners, couldá be acquired by tourists from insurance companies that have the respective Secretaría Tétechnique. The names of these companiesún have not been published on the entity's web portal.
Until the dífrom today, The regulations that dictate this ordinance have not been published nor the characteristicsístatics that the insurance mustá tell, nor dówho podrá be acquired, either in mainland Ecuador or in the immigration posts of the airports prior to entering the Islands.
These requirements already existíhave been recently updated in July 2017, where I enteredó in force the need to have a invitation letterón of a resident of Galápaid in the case of no hotel or cruise accommodation.
We will continue to update secúnew informationón become available.
