Wee Choo Keong

Questions Time: 14 March 2011 Matta Travel Fair

March 14, 2011

DARIPADA : TUAN WEE CHOO KEONG

[WANGSA MAJU]

TARIKH : 14 MAC 2011

SOALAN : Meminta MENTERI PELANCONGAN

menyatakan :

Bahawa memandangkan banyak agensi-agensi pelancongan yang ditutup (collapsed), sama ada Kementerian bercadang untuk mengeluarkan peraturan-peraturan untuk memaksa MATTA menyediakan tabung pampasan untuk dibayar semula kepada orang ramai yang telah membuat bayaran pendahuluan untuk tiket-tiket penerbangan dan pakej pelancongan di MATTA Travel Fair? Jika tidak, sila nyatakan sebab-sebabnya.

Thank you MATTA for responding

March 10, 2011

Thank you MATTA for replying to my posting on the MATTA Travel Fair, in HERE. Whilst I appreciate that all exhibitors are licenced by the Ministry of Tourism and also registered with SSM. Unfortunately, we still hear about travel agents absconded with big sum of monies collected from their customers for tour charges and/or flight tickets.

MATTA: Profits from travel fair come with responsibilities

March 6, 2011

On 04-03-2011 MATTA president, Yg Bhg Datuk Khalid Harun told the Star that “consumers can purchase tickets at the MATTA fair without any worry of falling prey to any fly-by-night scams“, in HERE. I believed that he was responding to my posting of 28-02-2011, in HERE. He also said that all participants at the MATTA fair are vetted. During last September MATTA fair there was an unlicenced agent participated. If what Datuk Khalid said was true, why MATTA did not detect the unlicenced travel agent during the travel fair last year. This fact was a clear proof that MATTA did not scrutinise the legal or financial status of the participants in the travel fair.

BEWARE OF MATTA FAIR!

February 28, 2011

Another MATTA Travel Fair March 11 – 13 as advertised in the national newspapers. I am told that there will be many goodies in the MATTA Travel Fair. However, there are many Malaysians who will also suffer from the “fly by night” tour agents/operators, who will cease operation few months after they have collected full payment for the tours and flight tickets. The victims of such scams are not protected at all.