Ringkasnya terdapat kepincangan. Sebenarnya semua pegawai kerajaan tahu apa yang sebenarnya berlaku. Setiap projek selalunya mesti dirancang mengikut telunjuk politik dari pihak tertentu. Lihat sahaja projek Bakun - memang sudah gagal mengikut kajian pakar Alam Sekitar kerajaan sendiri, tetapi mereka terpaksa tutup fakta negatif kerana menteri punya hal. Tidak perlu menuding jari kepada pegawai kerajaan, kerana politik sudah mengotori perkhidmatan.

LAPURAN AG KUTUK KERAJAAN SENDIRI

Menurut A-G, belanja RM343 juta untuk mempromosi industri pelancungan tidak mengenai sasaran. Sebaliknya banyak aktiviti yang menyerlahkan kelemahan.

Antara kekurangan tersebut ialah:

1. Produk pelancungan lemah
   
2. Khidmat Penerbangan lemah
   
3. Iklan lemah
   
4. Koordinasi dan Pemasaran lemah
   
   

Hasil pemantauan mendapati

1. 47 pusat pelancungan kotor, terbengkalai atau kurang kemudahan pengangkutan
   

2. Desa Budaya Terachi Kuala Pilah yang dibina dengan kos RM1 juta, gagal menarik usahawan untuk berniaga.
   
   

3. Pusat Aktiviti Orang Asli Cameron Highland yang sepatutnya menjadi pentas pertunjukkan budaya kini hanya menjadi rumah tumpangan sahaja.
   

4. Perlunya penyelenggaraan beberapa projek supaya ia tidak mampus.
   

5. Perlunya membuat kajian terperinci keuntungan sebelum berbelanja
   

6. Jadual penerbangan yang terlalu kurang serta sedikitnya tempat duduk dalam kapalterbang yang beroperasi di Malaysia berbanding Singapura dan Thailand.
   
   

7. 27 syarikat penerbangan ke Malaysia hanya terbang 155 kali sahaja seminggu. Tetapi 488 ke Singapura dan 436 ke Thailand.
   

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/mal9_1101.html

NOV 1, 2000

$159 million on tourism not well spent

The Auditor slams poor products and airline services

KUALA LUMPUR -- The government's expenditure of RM343 million (S$159 million) on tourism promotion last year was not well spent, the Auditor-General has said.

In a report, it said the activities carried out by the government had many weaknesses, The Sun reported.

These include poor tourism products, poor airline services, poor advertising and lack of coordination when implementing marketing activities.

Audit officers visited 47 tourism spots and found many were dirty, abandoned or lacked adequate transport facilities.

One example is the Terachi Cultural Village in Kuala Pilah, Negri Sembilan, built at a cost of RM1 million, which could not attract entrepreneurs to provide basic facilities.

Another is the Orang Asli Activity Centre in Cameron Highlands, which was meant to showcase native culture but is now a guesthouse.

The report suggested that related government agencies should study the viability of a tourism spot before undertaking development work there.

They should also maintain the facility well so it would not be abandoned or vandalised.

The report highlighted the problem of too few flights and the inadequate number of seats on airlines operating to Malaysia, compared with those going to Singapore and Thailand.

It was found that the reason for the shortage of flights was that the 17 airlines operating to Singapore and Thailand did not provide flights to Malaysia.

Another reason was that the 27 airlines flying to Malaysia provided only 155 flights a week, compared with 488 to Singapore and 436 to Thailand.

The report was optimistic that a Transport Ministry committee, set up to study traffic at the KL International Airport, would come up with several ideas to improve the situation.