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Tenom: The Federal Tourism Ministry has approved a
total RM300,000 for the promotion of the Sabah Agriculture Park at Lagud
Sebrang here.
Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen approved RM100,000 for the Sabah
Agriculture Park Orchid Festival beginning next year, aimed at promoting
the park to both domestic and international visitors.
She also approved RM200,000 as applied for by the park management to
provide information signage for all the new hybrid species in the park.
For the festival, she said the impact on boosting the number of
visitors to the park would be assessed first to see if it could be
continued.
Speaking during her maiden visit to the park here Wednesday, Ng said
the park that was built in 1981 has about 350 orchid species in its
collection and ranked as among the best in the region.
In fact, she said Malaysia ranked 12th biggest in the world in terms of its flora and fauna.
“We are a bit disappointed that the Sabah Agriculture Park is not
recording the number of visitors so that we can monitor its performance.
This park is so mesmerising, furthermore there are so many flowers and herbs such as the clerodendrum,” she said.
On the information signage, Ng urged the park management to make it
with quality with tourism features as an added attraction for the
visitors.
Meanwhile, she said last year the tourism sector contributed RM58.4
billion to the country with 24.7 million arrivals and from among them
three million came to Sabah producing a tourism receipt of RM5 billion.
“We hope the Sabah Agriculture Park will be able to cooperate with
tourism agents to include the park as among the destinations in their
tourism calendar.
“All the activities must be included in a package,” she said.
Hoteliers and homestay operators must also offer reasonable rates but
most importantly the surroundings must be kept clean and equipped with
facilities such public transportation, she said.
“Tourists prefer to stay in budget hotels rather than the luxury type,” she said.
Accompanying Ng were Sabah Tourism Promotion Board Chairman, Datuk
Tengku Adlin, his deputy, Datuk Sari Suhut and State Agriculture
Director, Datuk M C Ismail.
She was greeted by Assistant Minister to the Chief Minister, Datuk
Radin Malleh and District Officer, Siriman M F Basir as well as other
senior government officers and local community leaders.
2 comments:
RM200,000 for information signage for new hybrid species, looks like there are many new species that needs to be labelled.
Hopefully the RM300,000 spend on promotion of the Sabah agriculture park will help bring in more visitors.
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