November 27, 2011 at 2:00 pm
How much are YOU willing to pay to maintain the heritage of the areas you visit? If you visit Malacca, then the government’s answer is five percent of your nightly hotel bill. Dubbed the heritage charge, it is part of the state government’s effort to meet the cost of infrastructure facilities to provide more comfort to tourists.
Malacca, the only state in Malaysia to have a heritage charge.
It might sound weird, but the heritage charge has been effective since 1 September 2011. Hotel operators, however, reserve the right to decide whether or not to impose the charge on their customers. In a news report, the government mentions that no action would be taken against hotels which refused to impose the charge at the moment and that negotiations were underway to determine a solution.
The Melaka government is appealing to all hotel operators in the state to comply with the gazetting of the five percent heritage charge imposed on tourists spending the night in the historical state effective last Sept 1. In case you are wondering, the heritage charge is imposed on tourists staying at hotels and chalets in Melaka which has a total of 11,067 rooms from the 193 premises involved.
Read the full article below:
Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam said the charge imposed would be borne by the tourists and not the hotel operators.
“I appeal to them to give an opportunity to the state government by imposing the charge because I know there are some hotels that are not imposing the charge,” he said when approached by reporters, here Wednesday.
He said this when asked to comment on the report that three hotel associations in the state would not impose the heritage charge because it gave a negative impact as a whole to the Melaka tourism sector, besides being burdensome.
The three associations, namely the Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH), Malaysian Budget Hotels Association (MBHA), and the Malaysian Association of Hotel Owners (MAHO) claimed that the implementation of the charge was unreasonable.
“A charge of RM5 out of RM100 for each room is not a big burden because we know that the tourists spend RM40 each to enjoy barbecued fish and RM10 to climb the Taming Sari Tower…there is no problem for them to pay for this,” he said.
Mohd Ali said no action would be taken against hotels which refused to impose the charge at the moment and the local authorities would be asked to hold negotiations with them on the matter.
He said the move by the state government to impose the heritage charge was not to burden the tourists but to meet the cost of infrastructure facilities to provide more comfort to them.
The heritage charge is imposed on tourists staying at hotels and chalets in Melaka which has a total of 11,067 rooms from the 193 premises.
Source: Bernama
Paying For Heritage
November 27, 2011 at 2:00 pm
How much are YOU willing to pay to maintain the heritage of the areas you visit? If you visit Malacca, then the government’s answer is five percent of your nightly hotel bill. Dubbed the heritage charge, it is part of the state government’s effort to meet the cost of infrastructure facilities to provide more comfort to tourists.
Malacca, the only state in Malaysia to have a heritage charge.
It might sound weird, but the heritage charge has been effective since 1 September 2011. Hotel operators, however, reserve the right to decide whether or not to impose the charge on their customers. In a news report, the government mentions that no action would be taken against hotels which refused to impose the charge at the moment and that negotiations were underway to determine a solution.
The Melaka government is appealing to all hotel operators in the state to comply with the gazetting of the five percent heritage charge imposed on tourists spending the night in the historical state effective last Sept 1. In case you are wondering, the heritage charge is imposed on tourists staying at hotels and chalets in Melaka which has a total of 11,067 rooms from the 193 premises involved.
Read the full article below:
Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam said the charge imposed would be borne by the tourists and not the hotel operators.
“I appeal to them to give an opportunity to the state government by imposing the charge because I know there are some hotels that are not imposing the charge,” he said when approached by reporters, here Wednesday.
He said this when asked to comment on the report that three hotel associations in the state would not impose the heritage charge because it gave a negative impact as a whole to the Melaka tourism sector, besides being burdensome.
The three associations, namely the Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH), Malaysian Budget Hotels Association (MBHA), and the Malaysian Association of Hotel Owners (MAHO) claimed that the implementation of the charge was unreasonable.
“A charge of RM5 out of RM100 for each room is not a big burden because we know that the tourists spend RM40 each to enjoy barbecued fish and RM10 to climb the Taming Sari Tower…there is no problem for them to pay for this,” he said.
Mohd Ali said no action would be taken against hotels which refused to impose the charge at the moment and the local authorities would be asked to hold negotiations with them on the matter.
He said the move by the state government to impose the heritage charge was not to burden the tourists but to meet the cost of infrastructure facilities to provide more comfort to them.
The heritage charge is imposed on tourists staying at hotels and chalets in Melaka which has a total of 11,067 rooms from the 193 premises.
Source: Bernama
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