{"id":560,"date":"2020-09-18T03:51:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T03:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=560"},"modified":"2020-09-18T03:59:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T03:59:17","slug":"rm2-million-set-aside-to-boost-domestic-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"RM2 million set aside to boost domestic tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DomesticHS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DomesticHS.jpg 800w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DomesticHS-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DomesticHS-768x444.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Christina (centre) launching the stimulus package<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KOTA KINABALU: The caretaker Sabah Government has allocated RM2 million to stimulate domestic travel to Sabah on Thursday on September 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The RM2\nmillion was carved out from the RM5 million allocated for the Sabah New Deal\nPackage MICE Incentive 2020-2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018Domestic Tourism Stimulus Package\u2019 was launched by caretaker Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Christina Liew who represented caretaker Chief Minister Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal at the Sabah International Convention Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis will give a boost to the industry players to further intensify their efforts to activate the tourism activities of Sabah,\u201d Shafie said in his speech ready by Christina.<br> <br> \u201cUnder the \u2018Domestic Travel Stimulus\u2019, all Sabah based licensed tour operators selling domestic tour packages which include accommodation, transportation and tours are eligible to get incentive RM 50 per traveller as per the criteria set by the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Environment Sabah,\u201d he explained.<br> <br> The incentive is only applicable for the three days and two nights tour packages. And the tour operators must bring in a minimum of four travellers to claim the RM50. The travellers must stay with the same tour operator throughout the two nights sojourn.-HS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: The caretaker Sabah Government has allocated RM2 million to stimulate domestic travel to Sabah on Thursday on September 17. The RM2 million was carved out from the RM5 million allocated for the Sabah New Deal Package MICE Incentive 2020-2021. The \u2018Domestic Tourism Stimulus Package\u2019 was launched by caretaker Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister&#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-560","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\/560","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=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}