{"id":19785,"date":"2017-10-17T17:50:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T09:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=19785"},"modified":"2017-10-25T12:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T04:00:02","slug":"need-for-a-road-to-mulu-due-to-poor-flight-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=19785","title":{"rendered":"Need for a road to Mulu due to poor flight connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Piasau state assemblyman, Dato&#8217; Sebastian Ting said Mulu National Park\u00a0is a world renowned and the only world heritage in Sarawak. It is\u00a0heartbreaking to see that our tourism industry in Mulu is expected to\u00a0suffer losses of RM 5 million revenues next year due to the reduction\u00a0of MASwings flight frequency to Mulu.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, to solve this problem in\u00a0the long run is through construction of road availability from Miri\u00a0to Mulu National Park. The road is important for both\u00a0international tourists and also to cater for our own people in Miri\u00a0Division, Limbang, Lawas, Bintulu and Brunei with a total population\u00a0of 1.18 million.<\/p>\n<p>I concurred with the statement by Sarawak Tourism Federation (STF)\u00a0President, Philip Yong that the State Government should take a serious\u00a0view into the Mulu flight reduction issue including eliminating the\u00a0dynamic fare structure and introduce pricing cap on flights fare for\u00a0flights within Sarawak and to Sabah.<\/p>\n<p>In the last Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) sitting, I had said that the\u00a0only access to Mulu by tourists is by air to the small airport of the\u00a0park. Flights can be cancelled and severely delayed due to poor\u00a0weather conditions that make it unsafe to fly to the small airport.<\/p>\n<p>No tourists would want to travel half way round the world to be told\u00a0that they cannot get to Mulu National Park due to bad weather.\u00a0 This\u00a0leads to injustice to the tourists and creates bad publicity.<\/p>\n<p>The new road can stop at a river jetty near a kampung and outside the\u00a0boundary of the national park. The jetty point can be manned by Park\u00a0personnel. The jetty point must have facilities like secured car\u00a0parks, caf\u00e9, toilet facilities and shops selling local produce.\u00a0Tourists can only enter the Park by river transport from the jetty.<\/p>\n<p>The road proposal will help open up the Mulu National Park that will\u00a0benefit the community economically, just like the Pan-Borneo Highway\u00a0upon its completion. The Jetty Entrance Point is where we can manage\u00a0the number of people entering the Park, just in case it gets too many\u00a0visitors and the government does not want too many visitors in the\u00a0Park at any on-peak period.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image118.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19786\" alt=\"image1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image118.jpeg\" width=\"853\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image118.jpeg 853w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image118-199x300.jpeg 199w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/image118-682x1024.jpeg 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piasau state assemblyman, Dato&#8217; Sebastian Ting said Mulu National Park\u00a0is a world renowned and the only world heritage in Sarawak. It is\u00a0heartbreaking to see that our tourism industry in Mulu is expected to\u00a0suffer losses of RM 5 million revenues next year due to the reduction\u00a0of MASwings flight frequency to Mulu. Thus, to solve this problem in\u00a0the long run is through construction of road availability from Miri\u00a0to Mulu National Park. The road is important for both\u00a0international tourists and also to cater for our own people in Miri\u00a0Division, Limbang, Lawas, Bintulu and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=19785\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19787,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19785\/revisions\/19787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}