{"id":21187,"date":"2012-07-06T17:22:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T14:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=21187"},"modified":"2022-10-12T23:36:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:36:47","slug":"malaysia-tourism-boost-taxi-drivers-to-be-tutored-as-tourist-guides-in-malaysia-21187","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/malaysia-tourism-boost-taxi-drivers-to-be-tutored-as-tourist-guides-in-malaysia-21187\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Tourism Boost : Taxi drivers to be tutored as tourist guides in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21189\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21189\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21189\" title=\"Malaysia Tourism to benefit from polite and well-educated taxi drivers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/malaysia-tourism-taxi-nationalturk-0455.jpg\" alt=\"Malaysia Tourism to benefit from polite and well-educated taxi drivers\" width=\"610\" height=\"405\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malaysia Tourism to benefit from polite and well-educated taxi drivers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>Malaysia tourism ministry wants to improve the profile of the touristic country through well-trained taxi drivers.<\/h1>\n<p>Malaysia News, Kuala Lumpur \/ NationalTurk &#8211; Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak noted taxi drivers are the &#8216; pulse of the ecosystem &#8216; for Malaysian tourism as they meet and interact with tourists who come to the country which gets a popular tour destination.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysian PM Najib states the Malaysian government decided to appoint taxi drivers as tourism ambassadors as it realises that cabbies are the front-liners in welcoming and interacting with tourists who are flocking to Malaysia.<\/p>\n<h3>Malaysia Tourism to benefit from polite and well-educated taxi drivers<\/h3>\n<p>He explained that taxi drivers have been trained and given guidance on how to project a good image and treat their customers well, thus by following it, they can help elevate Malaysia\u2019s image to higher levels.<\/p>\n<p>The programme was launched in March and as of June 28, about 2,315 taxi drivers have been selected to undergo training.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported that some 4,000 taxi drivers will be appointed as ambassadors, after they have completed a one-day course at the Malaysian Tourism Centre.<\/p>\n<h4>Malaysia Tours popular<\/h4>\n<p>Najib also mentioned the plight and welfare of taxi drivers will always be taken care of by the government, and announced a RM35 million incentive for 67,000 taxi drivers nationwide under the Teksi Rakyat 1Malaysia (1Malaysia People\u2019s Taxi) programme last month.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia tourism ministry wants to improve the profile of the touristic country through well-trained taxi drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,118,117,14],"tags":[27277,12384,6539,27273,27275,27272,27271,27278,27274,27276],"class_list":["post-21187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-travel","category-world","tag-datuk-seri-najib-abdul-razak","tag-kuala-lumpur","tag-malaysia","tag-malaysia-prime-minister","tag-malaysia-taxi-drivers","tag-malaysia-tourism","tag-malaysia-tourism-boost","tag-malaysia-tourism-ministry","tag-malaysia-tours","tag-malaysian-prime-minister-datuk-seri-najib-abdul-razak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}