12-10-2022, 11:38 AM
Is our tourism industry reaching maturity or still at its infancy?
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INSTEAD of looking for substantive facts and figures, the answer can easily be found by the presence or absence of sightseeing tours with daily departures using tour buses with tourist guides at major cities and popular destinations.
These half-day or full-day excursions allow visitors to join by paying a tour fare to occupy a seat in a tour bus or van for sightseeing in and around the city or destination. At places where there are none, tourism is still at its infancy.
More than half a century ago, such sightseeing bus tours were already operating daily in Kuala Lumpur and Penang. But until today, they are hardly found in other cities or destinations.
Likewise, tourism in Malaysia is still at its infancy as long as there are no daily departures for tourists to travel from one city to another on overland tours in a tour bus with a tourist guide.
Even with a network of highways crisscrossing peninsular Malaysia for decades, tour operators are not offering daily overland bus tours that connect all major cities and holiday destinations.
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These half-day or full-day excursions allow visitors to join by paying a tour fare to occupy a seat in a tour bus or van for sightseeing in and around the city or destination. At places where there are none, tourism is still at its infancy.
More than half a century ago, such sightseeing bus tours were already operating daily in Kuala Lumpur and Penang. But until today, they are hardly found in other cities or destinations.
Likewise, tourism in Malaysia is still at its infancy as long as there are no daily departures for tourists to travel from one city to another on overland tours in a tour bus with a tourist guide.
Even with a network of highways crisscrossing peninsular Malaysia for decades, tour operators are not offering daily overland bus tours that connect all major cities and holiday destinations.
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