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LETTER | Saving our hotels is no rocket science
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LETTER | Since March 18 last year, various forms of movement control have been imposed in Malaysia starting with the movement control order (MCO), which was later loosened to conditional MCO and further relaxed to recovery MCO.
For Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, conditional MCO was introduced in May and recovery MCO in June. Due to a spike of infections, conditional MCO had to be reimposed from Nov 9 but rendered ineffective after inter-district and interstate travel restrictions were lifted from Dec 7.
It did not take long for infections to hit the roof with a record of 2,525 cases on the last day of 2020. After another 28,251 cases were recorded during the first 12 days of this year, MCO had to be imposed on five states and three federal territories from Jan 13.
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KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian Association of Hotel Owners (Maho) wants the interstate travel ban lifted for the sake of hotels that have suffered huge losses in the past 12 months.
Maho in a statement today revealed that a meeting with the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (Motac) and its minister, Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri, took place on Tuesday, during which the hotel owners’ situation was discussed.
During the meeting, Maho executive director Shaharuddin M. Saaid emphasised that no Covid-19 cluster had been spread from hotels, adding that all establishments had complied strictly with the relevant SOPs.
“This should be a valid reason to open interstate travel so that hotels and resorts will be able to have guests to sustain the business.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 The Malaysian Association of Hotel Owners (Maho) wants the interstate travel ban lifted for the sake of hotels that have suffered huge losses in the past 12 months. Maho in a statement today revealed that a meeting with the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (Motac) and.