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Table 1. Homestay accommodations in villages and
operators in Kelantan.
operators and become actually guests for the whole
village areas.
Entrepreneurship development: Homestay pro-
gram is helpful for the entrepreneurs to develop
small and medium enterprises (SME) in the rural
areas. It provides employment and business oppor-
tunities to the rural communities using their local
resources.
Small scale investment: Homestay owners can
operate their business with a small scale investment.
They have withdrawn their investment within a
short period. Moreover, this accommodation gives
profitable income to the operator.
Treasure of tourism resources: Kelantan is full of
natural resources, rich biodiversity, unspools beau-
ties, beaches, recreational forests and waterfalls.
These are suitable for homestay development in this
area. Homestay gives opportunities to the tourists
for staying closely with the tourism resources.
Cultural and social benefit: Kelantan is rich in
traditional Malay culture, custom and life-style.
This cultural performance is an integral compo-
nent of the homestay program. Moreover, Home-
stay gives opportunities to the guests to stay with
local communities and gather experiences form
their social value, belief and life-style.
Ministry of Tourism has developed some require-
ments for homestay accommodation development
in Malaysia. The homestay accommodations of
Kelantan must be followed these standards for suc-
cessful operation. According to the MT (2009), the
necessary requirements for homestay operations
are as follows.
Easy access: Homestay accommodations must
be situated in a suitable location for easy acces-
sibilities and near the tourism attractions. If the
visitors are staying in the homestay, they can enjoy
easy access in the tourism attractions.
Ensure basic facilities: Proper and separate
spaces are needed for home stay accommodation.
These accommodations have given emphasize to
the comfort of tourists, including facilities such as
dining space, living rooms and toilets.
Hygiene: Most of the homestays of Kelantan
are not in suitable conditions in terms of hygiene.
These accommodations should be clean and free
from pollution for comfortable stay of guests.
Good toilets and drainage systems are needed to
be in homestay for avoiding bad smell.
Safety and security: Security of houses is
important elements for the homestay operation
in Malaysia. Moreover, safety steps like fire pro-
tection facilities to be arranged by the homestay
operators.
Packages offered: The guests are interested for
attractive tourism activities in any destinations.
Homestay accommodations can be arranged and
offered lucrative service packages for the guests.
Year
Villages
Operators
2006
6
123
2008
8
125
2013
8
152
Source: Modified from Malaysia, 2013.
Table 2. Guest arrivals and income from homestay
accommodation in ECER, 2013.
Guest Arrivals
State
Local
Foreign
Income (RM)
Pahang
122,584
2,838
7,263,919
Terengganu
4,457
521
327,601
Kelantan
3,061
140
234,959
Source: Malaysia, 2013a.
Table 3. Projected guests and accommodation rooms
for Kelantan and Kota Bharu.
Guests
Accommodation Rooms
Year
Kelantan
Kota Bharu
Kelantan
Kota Bharu
2005
689,520
619,884
3,462
-
2020
2,511,565
2,260,409
22,937
20,643
Source: Malaysia, 2010 and ECER, 2007.
Table 3 shows the projected guests and accom-
modation rooms in Kelantan and its' capital
Kota Bharu for the year 2020. Based on 2005, the
guest arrivals will increase more than three times
both in Kelantan and Kota Bharu. Moreover,
accommodation rooms' demand will increase more
than six times in Kelantan as well as Kota Bharu.
Homestay can meet the demand of accommoda-
tion rooms both in Kelantan and Kota Bharu.
Kelantan has suitable conditions to develop
homestay accommodation based on tourism sites
of this state. There are some potentialities are
remaining in this state for establishing homestay
which should be helpful in tourism development.
These are:
Low cost: The accommodation, meal and other
charges of homestay are cheaper than other tour-
ist accommodation. The guests are normally spent
RM60 to RM120 in a day for their all activities in
homestay.
Hospitality: The rural people of Kelantan
are famous for their traditional hospitality. The
guests of homestay get warm hospitality from the
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