{"id":478,"date":"2020-06-28T09:12:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T09:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=478"},"modified":"2020-06-28T09:12:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T09:12:08","slug":"sta-hands-out-vouchers-to-members-totalling-over-rm13000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"STA hands out vouchers to members totalling over RM13,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/STA-HS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/STA-HS.jpg 800w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/STA-HS-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/STA-HS-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/STA-HS-121x80.jpg 121w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Tonny (right) handing over a voucher to a member<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Tourist\nAssociation (STA) has giving out stimulus vouchers worth RM300 each to all its members\nto help jump-start the tourism revival during the recovery movement control\norder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its chairman, Tonny Chew said the\nvouchers totaling over RM13,000 will be spent on the tourism services,\nactivities, entrance fees, products, among others operated by the STA members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initiative was in line with the \u2018#KitaJagaKita\nspirit\u2019 mooted after the tourism industry was badly hit by the global COVID-19\npandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Like the saying goes \u2018charity\nbegins at home\u2019, as our members comes from wide array of tourism stakeholders including\ntour operators, tourism transport operators, accommodation providers and many\nmore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTherefore, we work together to provide\nthe best services to tourists and to support each other in this business\ndownturn,\u201d Tonny said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All our members are surviving in 2020\nand look forward to rebuilding in 2021, when international visitors are\nexpected to return to Sabah, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe STA stimulus voucher is a small step towards boosting spending as the tourism industry struggles to recover from the toughest jolt to the tourism industry by far,\u201d Tonny said.-HS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Tourist Association (STA) has giving out stimulus vouchers worth RM300 each to all its members to help jump-start the tourism revival during the recovery movement control order. Its chairman, Tonny Chew said the vouchers totaling over RM13,000 will be spent on the tourism services, activities, entrance fees, products, among others operated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}