Tuesday, 11 May 2021 03:56 PM MYTBalik Pulau MP Muhammad Bakhtiar Wan Chik is seen in Parliament July 22, 2020. — Picture by Shafwan ZaidonGEORGE TOWN, May 11 — The tourism industry in Malaysia is on the verge of collapse due to the RM100 billion in losses it suffered last year and this recent nationwide movement control order 3.0 will further damage the industry, according to Balik Pulau MP Muhammad Bakhtiar Wan Chik.
He said Malaysia recorded 26 million tourists in 2019, which dropped to four million in 2020, an 80 per cent drop and an RM100 billion loss for the industry last year. He said recovery measures, other than Strategic Programme to Empower the People and Economy should be introduced to help the tourism industry survive.He reminded the government that there are more than 7,000 workers under the hospitality industry while 12,000 workers have already been retrenched or ordered to take unpaid leave due to the hotels’ inability to pay them.
He suggested that Tourism Malaysia promote the country as a destination to other neighbouring countries now in preparation for when borders reopen in the future.
Tutup Aja ler Rakyat pun susah mau tourism konon
SalamRamadan YB bakhtiarm timur laut tak rindu Jackie eh 😬
You could choose to open for tourism or risk the island’s population being infected by covid-19. Penang ICU is 100% occupied as reported by the CM
Very sad
SharaadKuttan Kalau tanya Nancy Shukri die akan royak ok je
Could hv mobilized tourist guides as contact tracing workers , tour buses as transport for vaccination n ferrying covid patients , hotels as screening points / vaccination
The only tourism initiative the PN Govt has done so far is add a Dep Minister. Imagine you're a CEO of a company and one of it's departments is idling and almost redundant. Yet you employed a highly paid manager just to sit there. You need to have your head checked for worms.
Nanti kena covid lah malaun