Quebec Municipality to Require Visitors to Scan QR Code to Enter and Leave

Îles-de-la-Madeleine, a municipality of just over 12,000 in Quebec, is implementing new policies that will require visitors to scan a QR code when they enter and leave the municipality. The measure is part of a plan to charge tourists a $30 fee, detailed in draft regulations adopted by the local government on April 9. The local government introduced the “Passe Archipel” (Archipelago Pass) and created the Sustainable Territorial Management Fund. The proceeds of the pass will be used to improve tourism infrastructure and preserve the natural environment of the Îles de la Madeleine archipelago in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. “Thanks to the payment of the Archipelago Pass, visitors will support the preservation of the natural environment of the archipelago and the improvement of recreational tourism infrastructure,” Mayor Antonin Valiquette said in a news release....