PETALING JAYA: Tourism players, including hotels, are calling on the government to lift the inter-district and interstate travel ban to prevent more operators from losing their rice bowl.
February 07, 2021
Shoppers at a market in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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For Syahiirah Junaidi, a Kuala Lumpur resident, the recent halal meat scandal in Malaysia is beyond her control.
The country was in December rocked by reports that a cartel had for decades been allegedly bribing officials to import and sell Muslims non-certified meat, including horse and kangaroo when the meat was neither ritually slaughtered according to Islamic custom nor derived from approved sources.
While Syahiirah says she cannot do much but continue to take the word of supermarkets that pledge their meat is halal, or permissible, she knows older residents would not be as forgiving.
Published on: Sunday, January 31, 2021
By: Malay Mail
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Kuala Lumpur: The National Tourism Policy (NTP) launched just last month has failed to address many issues faced by industry players in the country who are struggling to survive the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (Matta).
Matta president Datuk Tan Kok Liang
(pic) said the government’s 10-year tourism roadmap launched last December 23 did not address travel challenges under the new norm, nor provide a clear plan for the next three years to reinvigorate the tourism industry that has been crippled by the coronavirus.
Matta laments govt knows best mentality as tourism languishes
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The Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (Matta) lamented that the government knows best mentality is persisting despite the worrisome state of tourism in the country.
Matta president Tan Kok Liang pointed out that even before the Covid-19 pandemic, tourism in the country was already in a state of decline.
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