PACZ Tours Covid-19 Travel Information

The country’s primary concern is to assure both travellers and residents that Belize’s tourism product is safer than ever before. A series of new enhanced health and safety protocols have been put in place to protect visitors, Belizeans, and our communities.

These include:

• Mandatory use of face masks in public spaces
• Enforcement of physical distancing measures in public spaces and capacity restrictions at restaurants (currently 50%), grocery stores, retail stores, etc.
• Introduction of the “Tourism Gold Standard Program” which seeks to enhance the tourism industry’s health and safety standards by adapting new behaviours and procedures to ensure both employees and travellers are confident in the cleanliness and safety of Belize’s tourism product. Some of these new measures include:
  * Online check-in/out, contactless payment systems, and automated ordering/booking systems
  * Hand sanitizing stations
  * Enhanced cleaning and sanitization of public spaces and high touch surfaces
  * Capacity restrictions for all tourism sites to ensure physical distancing can be maintained
  * Smaller tour groups to provide a more intimate tour experience.

Gold Standard entities can be easily identified by looking for the Gold Standard Certificate or Safety seal.

Belize has also been recognized by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) and is now one of two hundred destinations using the Council “Safe Travels Stamp” – the world’s first global safety and hygiene mark that indicates that a destination has adopted global standardized health and hygiene protocols.

• Effective August 9th, 2021 all travellers, both vaccinated and unvaccinated, entering Belize from other countries will be required to present a negative COVID-19 test.
• All travellers entering Belize at the Philip Goldson International Airport (PGIA) will be required to present a negative Covid-19 PCR test taken within 96 hours of arrival or a negative result from any approved Antigen Rapid Test (home testing kits are not accepted) taken within 48 hours of arrival. If no test is presented, a COVID-19 test will be administered at the airport for a fee of USD $50 per passenger. Children under the age of 5 years will not be required to present a negative test; but children 5 years and older will be required to present a negative test.
• All travellers entering Belize through the Northern and Western Borders will be administered a Rapid Test for COVID-19 by the Ministry of Health and Wellness, at their own expense. No external COVID-19 PCR or Rapid Test will be accepted at these points of entry.

As of 1 April 2022, mask-wearing is no longer required for indoor and outdoor spaces.

Tourists visiting Belize can move about freely, however it is recommended that they remain within the Tourism Safe Corridor.  The Tourism Safe Corridor includes Gold Standard certified accommodations, tour operators, tourism transportation providers, restaurants, tourism sites and attractions, and gift shops.  These Gold Standard and certified entities have all been trained and have implemented enhanced health and safety measures. For a list of Gold Standard certified entities, kindly check the following link:

• As of March 1, 2022, all curfew mandates have been removed.