When foreign ‘friends’ play tout


GEORGE TOWN: Illegal and untrained, groups of foreign tour guides are hoodwinking enforcement personnel by claiming they are merely taking their overseas friends around town, it was revealed.

Penang Tourist Guides Association (PTGA) president Clement Liang said due to enforcement action, these persons, referred to as “tourist touts”, now resort to lacing their tours as social ones at various spots of interest.

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