{"id":2262,"date":"2010-04-10T15:20:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T07:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2010\/04\/decision-on-redang-does-not-go-down-well-with-divers\/"},"modified":"2010-04-10T15:20:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T07:20:27","slug":"decision-on-redang-does-not-go-down-well-with-divers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/decision-on-redang-does-not-go-down-well-with-divers\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision on Redang does not go down well with divers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PETALING JAYA: Divers gave the thumbs-down to the move to make Pulau  Redang an exclusive getaway, saying that for half the RM1,599 a night  accommodation proposed by the Terengganu government, a diver can now get  a four-day trip including accommodation, food and diving activities.<\/p>\n<p>They said budget travellers and divers would not be able go to the  diving haven if it was made a high-end destination.<\/p>\n<p>Diver  Angeline Goh, 29, believed that the plan would not only turn divers away  but also cause chalet operators to go bust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiving operators  look for cheap packages to take their clients. If it is expensive, they  will move to other places like Tioman,\u201d she said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Another  diver, Sean Phoon, 30, agreed that there was a need for conservation  efforts but noted that hiking prices and making it an exclusive getaway  was not the solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe corals have deteriorated and there is a  need to preserve the environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can preserve the  environment by following Pulau Sipadan\u2019s measures \u2013 limiting the number  of people on the island. You cannot force existing chalets to hike up  their prices and kill off these chalets by insisting on a ridiculous  price tag,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETALING JAYA: Divers gave the thumbs-down to the move to make Pulau Redang an exclusive getaway, saying that for half the RM1,599 a night accommodation proposed by the Terengganu government, a diver can now get a four-day trip including accommodation, food and diving activities. They said budget travellers and divers would not be able go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}