I was at Sekinchan and Kuala Selangor over the last holiday and notice tremendous business opportunity there.
I saw a lot of people from city visiting this kampung area for sight seeing, enjoying the food, buying fresh seafood and fruits also visit the local attraction such as firefly and eagle watching.
So where is your home town ? Is there something that you home town can offer to city folks ?
Simple things such as waterfall, orchard farm, rubber tapping, traditional food etc etc can be an attraction.
You may say you do not have any orchard or good cook nor there is any water near your kampung, what if your neighbour ? They may have something to offer ? Why not leverage on what they have and offer it to your friends or officemate in the city ? At the same time, you got a chance to go back to home town yet making some money out of it.
Now start looking at what you have in your home town, any specialty such as nature attraction ? historical attraction, traditional food ? etc etc. If you have more to offer, then look for a potential homestay package, it is not necessary to be a beautiful house as long as it is clean and safe. You might not have one but your neighbour might be interested to offer.
For example,
8am Depart to Kampung from KL
10am Reach Kampung – proceed to orchard for food harvesting
12pm Traditional Lunch at Makcik house
2pm Visit near by waterfall, birdwatching and butterfly hunting
5pm Shopping at local market
6pm Traditional Dinner at Makcik house
8pm Back to KL
Even you do not have anything to offer, you still can make money by leveraging what others have to offer.
I love the idea in this article. In my opinion each and every town or area has sites and/or features that are intersting for tourists to visit (and leave some cash).
Sometimes it depends on what you make out of your assets. With a little bit of creativity (think of interesting view-points, rare animals, any kind of show, food etc.) you can attract tourists to your place.
Cheers.
Rick
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