KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Tourism Board (STB) is ready to help rural communities get the skills they need to transform their areas into world-class rural tourism destinations by 2025.
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah s rural tourism players are not losing hope and keeping their eco-tourism products intact for the industry to make a comeback in the future.
Despite the slowdown in tourism since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the rural tourism operators are committed to ensuring their community-based eco-tourism areas are always well-kept to welcome future visitors.
One such place is Kisakot Eco Tourism at Kampung Melangkap Tiong where villagers are pooling resources to build several rest huts to improve the existing infrastructure facilities.
Kadamaian Tourism Association chairman Walter Kandayon said Kisakot Eco-Tourism was among more than 80 rural tourism operators in Kadamaian who had successfully obtained approval for a RM20,000 grant application under the Sabah New Deal.
IN this Special Report, Professor Felix Tongkul highlights the geological events and processes that have shaped some of the most spectacular geosites numbering 46 within the proposed 4,750sq km Kinabalu Global GeoPark.
Mind boggling geological events makes geology very hard to understand because they go back millions of centuries and range thousands of miles