With a view to boosting tourism, the Malacca Museum Corporation will be organizing free tours financed by the state’s Heritage Tax Fund (which has now amassed RM2.9 million since its inception in April 2012).
Datuk Khamis Abas, general manager of the Malacca Museum Corporation, has stated that the tours would run every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and that “Forty thousand ringgit has been allocated for them, which is for a one-year period from this month. It pays the allowances of our tour guides.”
The tour routes are set to include Malaysia’s most famous historical landmarks, world heritage sites and tourist attractions. Just a few destinations mentioned include the Malacca Sultanate Palace, the Dutch town-center ‘Stadthuys’ and the Portuguese Porta de Santiago.
The Heritage Tax was collected by Malacca’s Municipal councils (as well as the city proper) to finance the organization of courses under the Malacca Tourism Academy as well as a host of other tourism and conservation enterprises.
Quote from:The New Straits Times
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