Hotels in Malaysia lose an estimated RM300mil for every two weeks of closure during the pandemic. MARTEN BJORK/Unsplash
The hospitality sector in Malaysia will likely crumble before Covid-19 cases are kept under control and hotels are allowed to operate again.
Further delays to the reopening of hotels will threaten the industry’s survivability and impact livelihoods of industry employees, said OYO vice-president and country head (Malaysia & Singapore) Tan Ming Luk.
“The hospitality industry, which loses an estimated RM300mil for every two weeks of (closure during) the pandemic and ongoing travel restrictions, cannot wait for the whole country to get case numbers under control, looking at the difficulty in managing hotspots, or even for 60% of the population to be inoculated,” he said in a statement.
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