Trishaw Service To Be Revived İn Kelantan

KOTA BAHARU (Bernama) - The trishaw service, once a
popular mode of transport in the Kota Baharu town in the 1970s, will be revived
through a special initiative to be carried out between the Tourism Ministry and
the Kelantan Tourism Department.

Kota Baharu is the capital city of east coast Kelantan state in Peninsular
Malaysia.

Tourism Minister Dr Ng Yen Yen said the ministry had discussed
the matter with the state tourism department and had agreed to allocate RM10,000
(US$3,274) (US$1=RM3.05) to the Kelantan Trishaw Association to revive the
trishaw service as a tourism product.

"We want to revive the use of trishaws and promote the trishaw service as a
tourism product," she told reporters at a Chinese New Year gathering here
Friday.

She said that under the programme, to be implemented in three months,
trishaw riders would be given RM200 (US$65) each to decorate their trishaws.

Dr Ng said special courses would also be organised for the trishaw riders to
enlighten them on the places of interests along their route so that they would
be able to promote them to tourists.

She said the trishaw riders would also be taught basic foreign languages to
enable them to communicate with foreign tourists.