{"id":97628,"date":"2021-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/motac-appreciates-pemerkasa-s-assistance-to-help-the-tourism-and-culture-sector\/"},"modified":"2021-06-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T16:00:00","slug":"motac-appreciates-pemerkasa-s-assistance-to-help-the-tourism-and-culture-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/motac-appreciates-pemerkasa-s-assistance-to-help-the-tourism-and-culture-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"MOTAC Appreciates Pemerkasa +’s Assistance to Help the Tourism and Culture Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. One-off special assistance of RM500 ringgit to 17,000 registered tourist guides, 4,000 registered sightseeing buses, taxi, rental car, school bus and e-hailing drivers involving an allocation of RM68 million;\n<\/li>\n
  2. Extending the provision of a 10% electricity bill discount for an additional 3 months between July and September 2021 to hotel operators, travel and tourism agencies, shopping premises and complexes, convention centres, theme parks and local airline offices;\n<\/li>\n
  3. Providing special discounts to building and business space owners who offer rent reductions for business premises to SMEs and non-SMEs for a period of 6 months until 31 December 2021 for a rent reduction of at least 30% from the current rental rate;\n<\/li>\n
  4. The exemption from tourism tax and service tax on accommodation provided by hotel operators will continue and be extended until 31 December 2021;\n<\/li>\n
  5. Bus and Taxi Hire Rehabilitation Scheme with an allocation of RM1 billion. Through this scheme, eligible bus and taxi operators can obtain a loan moratorium of up to 12 months and extend the loan period up to 36 months;\n<\/li>\n
  6. Extending the Wage Subsidy Programme under SOCSO for 1 month for all affected economic sectors at a cost of RM1.5 billion with a limit of 500 workers per application; and\n<\/li>\n
  7. Micro-credit financing as low as 3% as working capital with an allocation of RM1.5 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    One-off special assistance of RM500 ringgit to 17,000 registered tourist guides, 4,000 registered sightseeing buses, taxi, rental car, school bus and e-hailing drivers involving an allocation of RM68 million; Extending the provision of a 10% electricity bill discount for an additional 3 months between July and September 2021 to hotel operators, travel and tourism agencies,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}