{"id":395,"date":"2020-05-28T11:03:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T11:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2020-05-28T11:03:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T11:03:18","slug":"tagal-system-leads-to-feet-fish-spa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Tagal system leads to feet fish spa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"389\" src=\"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/FishSpaHS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/FishSpaHS.jpg 800w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/FishSpaHS-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/FishSpaHS-768x373.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Visitors enjoying feet fish spa at Paramat River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KOTA BELUD: The introduction of tagal system in the early 2000&#8217;s has seen the villagers of Kampung Melangkap Tiong reaping the benefits from tourism activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tagal or bombon\nis a unique community-based fisheries resource management system designed by the\nSabah Fisheries Department to prohibit fishing activities in the river for a\ncertain period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overtime, the\nriver has been thriving with fishes and other marine creatures and brought new\nexperience to the villagers as the undisturbed river has attracted scores of visitors\nto enjoy their weekends there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon the idea about\ndeveloping the site into a tourism product came after the villagers saw the\nsuccess in Kampung Luanti Baru, Ranau which has become the inspiration to many in\ntransforming the river into a feet fish spa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have also observed\nhow they fed the fish. The owner, who is the pioneer in doing the river fish\nspa didn\u2019t teach us, but we learnt from observation as well as trials and\nerrors,\u201d 53-year-old Soulin Solidap shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soulin who is\nthe person-in-charge of cultural and a committee member of the Melangkap Tiong\nEco Tourism said they had been quietly developing the site starting from 2014\nuntil now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The turning\npoint came when the government carried out the rural development project to tar\nthe gravel road leading to the village in 2017, after the road was badly\ndamaged by the earthquake in 2015, she recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good road\ncondition had in fact boosted the arrival of visitors to the Paramat River sited\nat the foothills of Mount Nopunguk with Mount Kinabalu at the backdrop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ncommunity-based ecotourism site has not only created job opportunities for the participating\nvillagers but has also improve their economy through the payment of year-end dividends\nderive from tourism activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides the river\nfish spa as its main attraction, the visitors can also take a swim in the river\napart from feeding the fishes and relaxing at the bamboo-made resting huts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe entry and\nrental fees we collected will be utilised to further improve the ecotourism\nsite so that we can cater for more people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, there is no tourism activities in Kota Belud for the time being due to Covid-19 outbreak, furthermore the operators are still extra cautious.-HS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA BELUD: The introduction of tagal system in the early 2000&#8217;s has seen the villagers of Kampung Melangkap Tiong reaping the benefits from tourism activities. 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