THE TOURISM Minister Ng Yan
Yan is wrong to even had insisted to allow Korean to come to Malaysia and Sabah
to work as a local tourist guide. She said this is a request from the Korean to
use their people to be the tour guide for their tourists coming to Malaysia.
This is because there is no
or not enough Korean speaking guide available here. The minister is insisting
and wanted to go ahead with this move to allow these Korean to come in.
Her decision on this caused
heavy dismay, anger and disagreement among the local tour guides. The recent
meeting with the Sabah Tour Guide Association (STGA) with the Minister NG had
turned out to be a long wait for two hours and she didn’t turn up to meet them.
KK MP Hiew King Cheu felt
very disappointed with her due to the move to allow the Korean tour guides to
work here, and take away the work of the local tour guides who can speak Korean
too.
The point is that may be
Minister Ng did not know how bad is the impact by doing so, and how can we
allow a foreigner to come to our own mother land to introduce our tourism
attraction and not by our own people. It is utterly nonsense and it is a shame
to our countrymen.
According to the local tour
guides and the travel agents here, this is absolutely not applicable and they
said this will have an adverse effect on the industries. Just imaging if the
Korean can be allowed to do so, then the other countries could do the same.
Hiew said this has reflected
that the government especially the Ministry of Tourism has failed miserably in
this aspect and in their work. The foreign tourist is coming to visit Malaysia
and the top priority is to train our tour guides to speak various foreign
languages in order to cater for the need.
The popular languages are
Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Italian, German, and others. The Ministry should provide language course
to enable our tourist guide to speak multi lingo to need the demand and to
enhance the availability of the tourism industries.
To learn a foreign language
is simple and if special courses are provided by the Ministry of Tourism, we
can be sure that there will be plenty of Korean speaking tour guide in
Malaysia. It will be worthwhile for the Ministry to give free language courses
to our tour guide and to build up the strength of the tourism industry. This
will be much beneficial to the country when compared to using RM1.8million to
set up a Face Book account.
We must not let this happen
in Sabah and Malaysia. We don’t want to see the livelihood and income of our
local tour guides being taken away.
Put more efforts in providing foreign language courses for Sabah local guides.
ReplyDeleteMengenai cadangan mengambil pemandu pelancong dari Korea masih dalam perbincangan.
ReplyDeletedan ia hnya brsifat sementara.
DeleteTapi sebaiknya berikan keutamaan kepada pemandu pelancong tempatan kerana mereka lebih tahu akan apa kelebihan di Negara mereka ini.
ReplyDeletepastinya mereka diberi keutamaan. apapun, pemandu pelancong ni perlu lengkapkan diri dengan pelbagai kemahiran terutama berbahasa asing agar boleh bersaing.
Deletepemandu pelancong tempatan perlu belajar bahasa korea dan bahasa asing lain.
ReplyDeleteorang Korea ni sepatutnya mampu berbahasa Inggeris juga sebab dikatakan mereka ni lebih tumpuhkan pada bahasa ibunda mereka.
Deleteapa Hiew King Cheu tahu pasal tourism sampai tanpa segan silu mengatakan Ng Yen Yen buat kesilapan besar? dia pemandu pelancong ka?
ReplyDeletekeputusan yang dibuat oleh kementerian adalah berdasarkan aduan dari pelancong2 korea sendiri..
ReplyDeletejika Hiew dan pemandu2 pelancong tempatan mahu nafikan, jumpa la dengan pelancong2 korea dan bagitau mereka bahawa mereka itu silap..
ReplyDeletejika keputusan ini mampu meningkatkan jumlah pelancong korea, kenapa tidak dilaksanakan?? pemandu2 pelancong tempatan patut bijak bersaing, bukannya sekadar mengharapkan bantuan2 kerajaan untuk memudahkan kerja mereka sekalipun hasil kerja mereka kurang berkualiti..
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