China Tour Guides Attention Please...

On the 19th June 2008, I as a representative for the Taksina Travels and the Megah Dorongan Travels had a meeting with other tour guides representatives of each travel agents at Pearl International. With us is also the chairman of KLTGA Mr. Kenny Khan.

At that meeting, we were having solutions that even on the petroluem crisis, we, the China market tour guides are willing to be cooperative with the travel agents not to hike up the tour guide fees.

What made us really feel sad is that there is no representative from the Yang Guang travels. Its a really disappointing not to have any representative from the travel agent. As such, this made us so much more suspicious that the Yang Guang Travels tour guides are under cutting the tour guide fees.

So, in the meeting, we hope to past words to the Yang Guang Travels tour guides not to undercut the tour guide fees. It was believed that some of the Yang Guang Travels tour guides were only taking RM300 guide fees for the 4 days work for China group.

In such a bad situation with the world petroleum crisis, I on behalf of all the tour guides really hope that everyone will be cooperative not to undercut the tour guide fees. The price of every product is going to increase... so please, don't undercut the tour guide fees.

As for the travel agents, they are actually making excuse that because we tour guides are demanding for increase of tour guide fees and that is the reason why there are very few China groups coming into Malaysia. Please dont believe them because the actual reason is that the China government is barring all the government employees from going overseas due to earthquake which happened in Sze Chuan.

After all, the final word is that it is hope that we tour guides will past the words around to all tour guides that we should not let the travel agents to manipulate the tour guide fees anymore and also to tell the Yang Guang Travels tour guides not to undercut the tour guide fees.

We also concluded that as of 5th July 2008, we will go against and take actions of banning the tour guides license should they were caught undercutting the tour guide fees. We will be cooperating with the Malaysia Inbound Travels Association (MITA) to ban those travel agents who undercut the tour fare at all.

Please I really hope all tour guides are cooperative... Once we stand united, we will be strong forever... Please remember what tour guide fee that we fight for is for the benefits of all and its for the long term. When we have our tour guide fees, we show our profesionalisms.