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ADUN SPEAKS | Following the decline in tourism due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the federal government should reflect on the reforms needed to change our local tourism sector and reformulate a series of development strategies for tourism into the new normal in the next Budget 2021.
Visionary planning by the government is crucial to solving the structural problems of the tourism industry, to develop an integrated set of health and safety regulations for the entire industry, as well as to usher in multidirectional innovation and recovery in the tourism industry.
In order to control and prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus, many countries have implemented policies that inevitably brought devastating impacts to the global economy, such as restricting the spread of the virus at all costs, implementing quarantine measures, encouraging citizens to stay home and conditionally restrict people from traveling, eating out, and joining industry exhibitions and meetings.
Among all, tourism is one of the industries most affected due to the implementation of many unprecedented measures and policies by different countries.
The outbreak of the new Covid-19 wave led to the re-implementation of the conditional motion control order (MCO) in regions such as Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Sabah. This has inevitably caused serious challenges for companies and affected the domestic tourism industry which had just experienced a slight improvement …
