Students In Holiday Islands Can Be Apprentice Tour Guides, Says Tourism Minister

March 25, 2010 09:44 AM

KUALA TERENGGANU, March 25 (Bernama) -- The Tourism Ministry plans to get secondary schools students in holiday islands to become apprentice tour guides.

Its minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen said for a start, the ministry would work with the Terengganu government to initiate a pilot project on this in Pulau Perhentian.

"They are more suited to act as tour guides because they have more detailed knowledge about the islands they live in.

"Selected students will be trained for this and they can be trained outside of school hours," she said.

Ng told this to reporters after attending a briefing on the upgrading of tourist facilities at the culture and crafts complex in Pasar Kedai Payang here today.

-- BERNAMA