Veteran local guide offering a new way to travel via virtual live tours


Sharing the experience: Shaukani (right) conducting a live tour presentation at the traditional village of Kampung Morten, Melaka, with the help of his assistant Mohd Khusairi Johari, 19.

PETALING JAYA: The nation’s borders may be closed but it has not stopped tourist guide Shaukani Abbas from conducting “virtual live tours” to promote Malaysia under the new norm.

Shaukani, who has 29 years experience as a tourist guide, turned to the Internet to continue his work after international travel was hit by the Covid-19 global lockdown.

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