KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 26 -- Tourism Malaysia is considering travel bubbles as a means to bolster the floundering local tourism industry badly hit by the Covid-19 pandemic.

During an interview with RTM's Bicara Naratif last night, its director-general Datuk Musa Yusof stated that he is hopeful that cross-border travel for leisure will begin in stages sometime in the first quarter of 2021, provided the Covid-19 situation in Malaysia remains under control.

"From the tourism point of view, hopefully, we should see some movement by the first quarter of next year. This is what I mean by green travel bubbles.

"As an example, Malaysia and Singapore have allowed cross-border travel already, but for essential services only, and not for leisure yet...