Association hopes for soft loans for tour agents after Covid-19 hits tourism industry

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KUALA LUMPUR: Some 1,000 tour agents here have lost a total of RM270mil since the Covid-19 viral outbreak, says the Malaysian Chinese Tourism Association (MCTA).

Some 1,000 tour agents here have lost a total of RM270mil since the Covid-19 viral outbreak, says the Malaysian Chinese Tourism Association ."An average of about 3,000 travellers used to travel abroad a day and this has dropped to almost none," said its president Datuk Albert Tan at a press conference here on Friday ."We need help to tide us over until the situation improves.

Other assistance, he said, would be for a six-month waiver on loan repayments for buses operated by inbound tour agents. "We are caught in between as airlines are refunding individual ticket bookings and not group bookings.

 

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