Published on: Thursday, May 10, 2012
Kota Kinabalu: Sabah Tourist Association (STA) Chairman, Tonny Chew has expressed concern over the recent call for taxi and hired car associations to offer attractive packages and to double up as tour guides made by Federal Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen
The call was also objected to by the Sabah Tourist Association Guide (SGTA) and Malaysia Association of Tours and Travel Agent, Sabah (Matta).
"It's understandable that the move may be beneficial for taxi drivers and can boost their business in the transportation services with added advantages of selling travel packages and being guides for each client that they chauffeur. "Alas, in doing so, it renders the services of existing licensed tour operators and licensed car rental companies null," he said.
"It may become a big disadvantage and comes as significantly unfair to guides who have invested time and money to have their skills recognised and certified, during the learning process. "It is also a disadvantage for travel companies that have invested a lot to build their fleet of licensed guides," he said.
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I don't know about that, some tourist does not like to follow tours because they prefer to visit a place by themselves without need to go with the schedule organized by the agency. Therefore taxi drivers can be a good source of reference to the tourist regarding which places are interesting.
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, let's just hope the Tourism Ministry and the government will come up with a win-wins situation for the tourism industry, taxi industry as well as the tourist themselves.
ReplyDeletelakukan yang terbaik untuk meningkatkan sektor pelancongan Sabah.
ReplyDeletekalau ikut travel agency memang terhad masa untuk berjalan sebab sudah ada masa yang ditetapkan. lagipun biasanya pelancong ni terus dibawa dengan bas persiaran yang besar. kalau ikut taxi pelancong boleh arahkan sendiri di mana destinasi dituju.
ReplyDeleteKalau tindakan ni jadi masalah, lebih baik dikaji semula dan dipertimbangkan. harap2 keputusan yang terbaik dapat diambil dan tiada yang tidak puas hati.
ReplyDeleteTravel agencies harus mencari pelbagai cara agar service mereka mendapat perhatian dari kebanyakkan pelancong.
ReplyDeleteJangan kerana hal sekecil ini akan memberi kesan yang besar kepada sektor perlancongan kita.
ReplyDeleteterserah la pada tourists sama ada mahu menggunakan kidmat tourist guide atau tidak. tapi lebih selamat kalau ada tourist guide.
ReplyDeletetaxi harus memberi perkidmatan yang cemerlang dan berpatutan.
ReplyDeleteJangan mengambil kesempatan dalam perkara yang tidak sepatutnya.
ReplyDeleteDatuk Masidi Manjun said the tour guiding job should be left to licensed tourist guides.
ReplyDeleteLeave job to tourist guides
The majority of the tourists coming into Sabah have been taken up by tour buses included in packages offered by travel agencies.
ReplyDeleteMost tourists taken up by tour buses