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SINGAPOREANS PREFER BALI TO MULU
MIRI (Malaysia), May 8 (Bernama) -- Singaporeans prefer to go to Bali rather
than Gunung Mulu National Park near Miri as the tour packages to the Indonesian
island are cheaper, Sarawak Assistant Minister of Infrastructure Development and
Communications, Lee Kim Shin, said here, Friday.
Miri is a city in northern Sarawak in East Malaysia, on the island of Borneo
while Gunung Mulu National Park encompasses incredible caves and karst
formations in a mountainous equatorial rainforest setting.
He said the big difference in the package prices and lack of tour packages
had been found to be among the factors that hindered the efforts to attract more
Singaporeans to visit the national park, regarded as Sarawak tourism's crown
jewel.
Speaking at a news conference here, he said tour operators should find ways
to come up with tour packages with competitive prices to lure people from the
island republic to come to Mulu.
Lee, who is also a Sarawak Tourism Board (STB) member, wanted the Federal
Tourism Ministry to pay greater attention on Mulu and other tourism products in
Sarawak when carrying out their promotions overseas.
Sarawak had been actively promoting their products to woo more regional
tourists to visit the state following the anticipation of a lesser number of
long-haul tourists due to the current global economic slowdown.
Lee said he had also requested a Singapore-based budget airline, Jetstar, to
start direct flights between the island state and the city here to raise greater
interests among Singaporeans.
At present, the airline only operated between Singapore and Kuching, he
added.
Last Saturday, Sarawak Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr George Chan had said
that he felt quite disturbed to learn that some Singaporeans had no knowledge
about tourism products offered in the city here, which is the main gateway to
Mulu.
He came to know about this fact after a recent meeting with the chief
executive officer of a Singapore budget airline who did not know about the
existence of Mulu, which had been a Unesco world heritage site since 2000.
-- BERNAMA
than Gunung Mulu National Park near Miri as the tour packages to the Indonesian
island are cheaper, Sarawak Assistant Minister of Infrastructure Development and
Communications, Lee Kim Shin, said here, Friday.
Miri is a city in northern Sarawak in East Malaysia, on the island of Borneo
while Gunung Mulu National Park encompasses incredible caves and karst
formations in a mountainous equatorial rainforest setting.
He said the big difference in the package prices and lack of tour packages
had been found to be among the factors that hindered the efforts to attract more
Singaporeans to visit the national park, regarded as Sarawak tourism's crown
jewel.
Speaking at a news conference here, he said tour operators should find ways
to come up with tour packages with competitive prices to lure people from the
island republic to come to Mulu.
Lee, who is also a Sarawak Tourism Board (STB) member, wanted the Federal
Tourism Ministry to pay greater attention on Mulu and other tourism products in
Sarawak when carrying out their promotions overseas.
Sarawak had been actively promoting their products to woo more regional
tourists to visit the state following the anticipation of a lesser number of
long-haul tourists due to the current global economic slowdown.
Lee said he had also requested a Singapore-based budget airline, Jetstar, to
start direct flights between the island state and the city here to raise greater
interests among Singaporeans.
At present, the airline only operated between Singapore and Kuching, he
added.
Last Saturday, Sarawak Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr George Chan had said
that he felt quite disturbed to learn that some Singaporeans had no knowledge
about tourism products offered in the city here, which is the main gateway to
Mulu.
He came to know about this fact after a recent meeting with the chief
executive officer of a Singapore budget airline who did not know about the
existence of Mulu, which had been a Unesco world heritage site since 2000.
-- BERNAMA
