{"id":1950,"date":"2023-03-30T14:27:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T14:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2023-03-30T15:46:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T15:46:28","slug":"reviving-mazu-project-to-boost-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=1950","title":{"rendered":"Reviving Mazu project to boost tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KOTA KINABALU: Former chief minister Tan Sri Chong Kah Kiat believes the revived 108-foot Mazu Statue in Kudat would attract millions of tourists and protect seafarers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chong credits the statue as an important icon for Kudat and Sabah&#8217;s tourism, not religion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He cited the Quan Yin statue&#8217;s success in Sanya, which attracts 10 million visitors from mainland China yearly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also expressed gratitude to Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Christina Liew for pursuing the matter and the State Government for considering resuming the project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chong was appointed as Special Tourism Advisor to the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah Government by Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: Former chief minister Tan Sri Chong Kah Kiat believes the revived 108-foot Mazu Statue in Kudat would attract millions of tourists and protect seafarers. Chong credits the statue as an important icon for Kudat and Sabah&#8217;s tourism, not religion. He cited the Quan Yin statue&#8217;s success in Sanya, which attracts 10 million visitors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot_20230330_222200_Google.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}