Kampung folk sell their homestay in English


GEORGE TOWN: Customers will not just walk in even if you open your doors widely. You need to sell, but even if you have your selling skills down pat, imagine how hard it must be to do it in a language you are not used to.

That was the case here yesterday for 35 homestay operators from Kampung Lahar Yooi, a hinterland of padi fields stretching to the horizon 10km from Butterworth.

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