MALAYSIA - Efforts to disburse the tourists all over Sabah

Dailyexpress.com.my, 12 December, 2006

THE State Government wants Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Berhad (BPMB) to look beyond the State capital and extend loan facilities to more tourism players in Sabah.
DCM Tan Sri Chong said he was glad that BPMB had already approved a total of RM140 million tourism infrastructure loans and was scrutinising several other applications for loans totalling RM200m in Sabah.
"In fact it is a small figure, I hope it will be more because Sabah is the place for the courageous and diligent (tourism investors).
"You have to look beyond Kota Kinabalu to Sandakan, Tawau, Lahad Datu, especially with the coming up of the POICÉalso in the interior (to extend benefits to develop the tourism infrastructure)," he told BPMB President/Group Managing Director, Datuk Haji Abdul Rahim Mohd Zin.
Chong also said the State Government was unperturbed by the Federal Tourism Ministry's statement on the shortage of hotel rooms in the State capital, especially in coping with the coming Visit Malaysia Year 2007.
"There is no shortage of rooms. Sabah is not KK and for the past few years we have been promoting the whole of Sabah (as a tourism destination). It is a very big State and it is beyond KK," he said.

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