Tourist guides attend SOP training session before travellers arrive

(Front row, from left) Chin, Ch’ng and Yeoh with the tourist guides who attended the training session while visiting the Esplanade, Penang. — K.T. GOH/The Star

DONNING their signature batik shirts, tourist guides are back on the streets to explore Penang’s latest attractions before international travellers come here in January.

Penang Tourist Guides Association (PTGA) chairman Chin Poh Chin said 80 members were divided into eight groups during the training session.

About 700 members under the PTGA are ready to get back to work, says Chin.