Sabah tourist guides promote destination through virtual tours

Discovering a manner round ongoing journey restrictions, Sabah vacationer guides have taken to digital excursions to advertise the East Malaysian vacation spot.

From January 21 to February 28, the Sabah Vacationer Guides Affiliation (STGA) and the Sabah Tourism Board are internet hosting 20 on-line guided excursions on its Fb web page. Whereas the web excursions on Fb are view to view, future excursions might be chargeable at US$10 by way of www.sabahtouristguide.com.

STGA president Grace Leong mentioned the web excursions have been developed in response to the lack to journey in 2021.

She mentioned: “It was a problem for our guides to be taught the system and convey forth an expertise nearly. Nonetheless, we managed to create a number of excursions.

“We’re happy that Sabah Tourism Board had approached us to debut these excursions and we hope that from this primary spherical of periods, there might be extra consciousness of those on-line guided tour choices.”

Sabah Tourism Board chief govt officer, Noredah Othman, applauded the efforts of Sabah vacationer guides in upskilling themselves to conduct digital excursions.

She mentioned in a press assertion: “That is yet one more avenue for us to showcase Sabah to the world. We perceive the challenges in the course of the no-travel interval in Sabah and having to utilise sources at hand.

“The concept of mixing pre-recorded excursions and being current to work together is equally an excellent methodology of presentation. Moreover, Sabah Tourism is glad to have the ability to help the trade in no matter means.”

Noredah famous that the the primary two periods attracted greater than 6,000 views in all.

In anticipation of Sabah re-opening to worldwide vacationers, the Sabah Tourism Board will proceed to lift vacation spot consciousness and feed the general public with info and messages about Sabah tourism.