MP SPEAKS | Time to revive and rebuild the tourism industry

MP SPEAKS | Visit Malaysia 2020 was the dream of local tourism players for our nation, to have its largest number of visitors through multiple strategic promotions and partnerships.

The stage was set for all of this to happen by having the entire industry on board the vision of bringing in a total of 30 million tourists to Malaysia.

Most businesses even spent additional budget to enhance their premises and services as well as in marketing their products all over the world.

Then, the unthinkable happened in the form of a virus, Covid-19.

With the increasing number of Covid-19 infections and deaths, the government took a bold step in announcing the movement control order (MCO), freezing the movements of all Malaysians and closure of businesses.

It took almost two months before most businesses were allowed to operate again...