专访吕秀敏 Interview Erina Loo

吕秀敏
马来西亚女导游协会（MWTGA）主席

马来西亚女导游协会（MWTGA）主席吕秀敏非常感激妇女组在更新执照和推行“严禁女导游与男性同事同房”的运动之下所给予的协助。

她说，“马华妇女组为女导游协会提供了很多方面的援助。首先是更新执照的问题，马华妇女组在YB周美芬副部长的领导下，就非常有效率地协助我们解决问题。之后也透过她的努力与协助下和马来西亚旅游部秘书长见面。2008年12月26日，马来西亚旅游部正式承认马来西亚女导游协会，让我们可以无需依赖其他组织而能直接为我们的会员向马来西亚旅游部申请更新我们的执照。”

“现任旅游部长拿督斯里黄燕燕也支持“严禁女导游与男同事同房”的运动，并援引她的权力宣布，从2009年6月1日起强制男女导游同房的旅游公司，将被吊销执照。这一点我觉得马华妇女组做了一个很大的贡献。我本人与公会很幸运获得马华妇女组的协助与支持。我们对于和马华妇女组的合作感觉非常开心和满意。”

她形容与马华妇女组的合作关系是“非常有效”。

由于她们仍然担心随着落实“男女不准同房”的政策后，会影响受聘的机会。她希望马华妇女组在接下来的日子里，能够有效地协助他们解决这方面的问题，让她们在拒绝男女同房政策的同时，也能获得旅行社的聘用。除此，她也希望马华妇女组能够和马来西亚女导游协会合作，通过各类宣导及培训计划提升女导游的个人法律权益醒觉。

Erina Loo
Chairwoman of Malaysian Women Tourist Guides Association (MWTGA)

When asked how Erina views working with Wanita MCA on advancing rights and interests of women tourist guides, she recorded her thanks and gratitude to Wanita MCA on the issue of license renewal and room-sharing between women tourist guides and male colleagues.

“Wanita MCA contributed a lot to MWTGA. Firstly on issue of license renewal, YB Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun effectively assisted us to resolve this issue by facilitating a meeting with the Secretary General of the Ministry of Tourism. On 26 Dec 2008, we received a letter from the Ministry of Tourism recognising us as an autonomous body.”

“Secondly, when recently appointed Minister of Tourism Dato’ Sri Dr Ng Yen Yen invoked her power as the Minister that licences of errant tour operators would be revoked effective 1 June 2009 if room-sharing between women tour guides and their male colleagues were to continue. I feel that in this respect, Wanita MCA has successfully helped. I feel very fortunate as we have received a lot of support from Wanita MCA. Until now, MWTGA is very happy and satisfied with the level of commitment by Wanita MCA in collaborating with us.”

“Very effective”, she said pronouncedly on their working relationship with Wanita MCA.

She hopes that Wanita MCA will continue to provide support especially in terms of job opportunities as women tourist guides face real risk of backlash of losing their jobs as a result of the no-room share policy. In addition, she also hopes that Wanita MCA could work together with MWTGA to raise awareness of women tourist guides on their legal rights through initiatives such as public education and training programmes.