GEORGE TOWN: Illegal and untrained, groups of foreign tour guides are hoodwinking enforcement personnel by claiming they are merely taking their overseas friends around town, it was revealed.
Penang Tourist Guides Association president Clement Liang said due to enforcement action, these persons, referred to as “tourist touts”, now resort to lacing their tours as social ones at various spots of interest.
“They could be taken to places of no historic or touristic importance and made to buy goods and services at exorbitant prices.In June, The Star highlighted the harm caused by tourist touts illegally soliciting business in Penang, Melaka, Johor and Sabah. Former Penang Island city councillor Wong Yuee Harng, the previous alternate chairman of the council’s parking sub-committee, said multiple joint operations were conducted with the police to deal with the issue.
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