Liew with shopkeepers at Kampung Air.
KOTA KINABALU: Business is thriving in the central business district (CBD) here, especially in eateries along Gaya Street here, due to the prevailing tourism boom.
Api-Api Assemblywoman Datuk Christina Liew made this observation during her walkabout to check on the wellbeing of the shopkeeping community and to give out mooncakes to business owners at various locations in the city early this week.
“Bak Kut Teh and noodle shops are a hit with Chinese tourists, some of whom also patronise restaurants at the Sinsuran Complex. A business owner told me that tourists kept coming back because they loved the fresh seafood served,” she said, adding that durian vendors were also cashing in on the surge in tourist arrivals with stalls set up in the five footway outside eating establishments.
While revisiting Kg Air, Liew who is also Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister learned from traders that business was picking up, too, post-Covid but at a slow rate.
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