Amazing Race Asia premiere last Thursday (Nov 9) and I’m pretty proud that the producers chose Kuala Lumpur as their starting spot.
There is an unexpected scene that makes me blush though.. 2 out of 10 teams are being ripped off by KL taxi drivers, in front of video camera!
It’s nothing new about KL taxi rip-offs, the press and bloggers have been addressing this issue for multiple times; but the government and authorities are not taking the problem seriously.
Mind that taxi drivers are the front-liners that’s going to ‘welcome’ foreign tourist; it’s likely that foreigners will encounter and use a taxi service at least once during their travel in Malaysia.
The idea that 1 in 5 foreigners will be conned by our taxi drivers is simply unbearable, that is something that’s really going to spoil Malaysia image.
November 13th, 2006 at 1:47 am
[…] There are some ugly scenes though… apparently 2 out of the 10 teams were conned by Malaysia taxi drivers; thanks for the ‘nice’ promotion of Malaysia tourism. […]
November 30th, 2006 at 1:43 am
[…] Malaysia taxi drivers have been under headlines recently for all the wrong reasons; I had criticized some of them for embarrassing the nation too. […]