{"id":29804,"date":"2026-02-20T01:22:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=29804"},"modified":"2026-02-20T01:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:22:36","slug":"malaysian-minister-slams-rude-staff-hindering-tourism-do-you-know-who-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=29804","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian minister slams rude staff hindering tourism: \u2018do you know who I am?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/02\/12\/675d9830-207c-4a2b-aed3-35e795059026_27e80a76.jpg?itok=2PUR20BO&amp;v=1770861085\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Some public and private sector employees need a change of attitude if Visit <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Malaysia<\/span> 2026 (VM2026) is to succeed, according to Tiong King Sing.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The tourism, arts and culture minister said he has received numerous complaints from both foreign and domestic tourists about the rudeness they faced when making inquiries.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cSome officers think they have a lot of power. But when people don\u2019t understand certain issues, we must explain,\u201d Tiong said when launching the Mesra Malaysia campaign in KL Sentral on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cBut these officers tried to show their power \u2026 [some even said] \u2018Do you know who I am?\u2019 Let\u2019s look at this issue seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Aside from foreign tourists, Tiong also said even Malaysians from rural areas were looked down upon by some government officers and retail outlet employees.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWhen they asked questions, they were not answered nicely,\u201d he said, adding that he will speak to shopping centre management about this after Lunar New Year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/southeast-asia\/article\/3343248\/malaysian-minister-slams-rude-staff-hindering-tourism-do-you-know-who-i-am?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some public and private sector employees need a change of attitude if Visit Malaysia 2026 (VM2026) is to succeed, according to Tiong King Sing. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4840],"tags":[15978,6686,1213,5665,4976,339,5058],"class_list":["post-29804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-globetrotting","tag-hindering","tag-malaysian","tag-minister","tag-rude","tag-slams","tag-staff","tag-tourism","wpcat-4840-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}