Record 1 000 Rooms Booked In Langkawi As Malaysia Enters Recovery Mco Phase

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CORONAVIRUS | Barely hours after Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin announced further relaxing of Covid-19 prevention restrictions, over 1,000 bookings from June 10 onwards have reportedly been made for hotel rooms in Langkawi
Astro Awani quoted Langkawi Tourism Association CEO Zainuddin Kadir as saying that the development marked a positive start to revival of the domestic tourism sector which has been badly hit by the pandemic
"Between 4pm and 4.45pm today, we received 1,000 bookings in less than one hour
"This is a record, all our hotels received (in total) 1,000 bookings from all the domestic tourists who wished to come to Langkawi," he said
Zainuddin further said the association has set a target of attracting one million domestic tourists to Langkawi from June 10 to Dec 31
At the same time, he said there were several matters which needed to be clarified, particularly on the use of hotel facilities
"People who go on holidays with their children, family, definitely they will want to use the pool but this was not elaborated in the prime minister's announcement
"I will meet with the tourism minister personally to seek set guidelines," he added
Zainuddin said major tourist attractions including the Langkawi cable cars and theme park still remained closed to the public
Muhyiddin in a special address today said interstate travel restrictions have been lifted under the new phase of recovery movement control order (MCO) from June 10 to Aug 31
They include the resumption of almost all businesses and industry sectors, on condition of compliance with set standard Covid-19 prevention procedures. - Mkini

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