Homestay Operators Encouraged To Use Website For Promotion
I totally agree with the tourism ministry on this matter. I believed that internet can play a very good role in promoting and helping the homestay operator as it can make their place ‘more accessable’ by the prospect.
Homestay Operators Encouraged To Use Website For Promotion
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 24 (Bernama) — The Tourism Ministry is encouraging homestay holiday operators to use the website to offer their services to domestic and foreign tourists, said its minister, Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said.
“Anyone (homestay holiday operators) wishing to offer their services need only to press the keys to the homestay directory to look at the terms and this will facilitate them in offering their homestay services to the tourists,” she told reporters after launching the website ‘Program Zoom! Homestay 2008′, here Wednesday night.
Azalina said there were more than 1,000 homestay units throughout the country and this tourism product had yielded an income of almost RM4.9 million last year.
She said the process of confirming an application to become a homestay operator took between three and six months involving health checks, security, hygiene and the whole surrounding of the homestay unit.
“The qualification for registering is very important. Once you register, you have a certificate, it’s a done deal,” she said.
– BERNAMA