‘Allocation not enough to empower tourism industry’


PETALING JAYA: Local tourism operators have described Budget 2021, which they hoped would revive the sector badly hit by Covid-19, as having fallen short of their expectations.

Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (MATTA) president Datuk Tan Kok Liang said the allocation under the Budget was “inadequate to empower the tourism industry”.

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