Office staff, tour guides and drivers were laid off and some companies simply shuttered their doors to stop haemorrhaging money. And so we entered a fourth round of battle and the company, like most in the industry, has had zero income for almost eight months at this stage. There is a prospect of hundreds of thousands of travel industry workers being out of work. And the industry is still waiting patiently for the RM1bil emergency assistance that is supposed to come from the Tourism Ministry. LEESANKuala LumpurNote: The writer is a tourism industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience and cofounder of a leading multinational travel agency.

Source: The Star September 12, 2020 01:52 UTC