Topic : Travelling In Own Country is Better than Travelling Abroad
Title : Which is better, travelling in Malaysia or abroad?
CLAIM
Travel in Malaysia is
better
Easy travel in Malaysia
Generate economy
domestic growth
PREMISES
(Tikah/Nisa)
-Easy to get halal food and
prayer places
-No language barrier easy
to communicate with local
People
-Manage to use own
transportation.
- No need to to worry
about the currency
exchange rate
(Tikah/Nisa)
-When Malaysians travel
at home, the money that
are spent can boost
domestic economy.
-Support local
employment in the tourism
COUNTER-ARGUMENT
(Fiza)
-People can use uber car or
grab car to move around in
abroad
-Abroad have modern and
technology public
transportation compare to
Malaysia
-People can use
application like google
translation for language
translation
- Travelling overseas
become easier for
Malaysians because our
passport ranks as the
ninth most powerful in
the world which means
Malaysians had visa-free
or visa on arrival acess to
180 countries and
territories. (The Star, 8
June 2018)
(Faizal)
- Travel overseas also
good for nation’s
economy. It increase
government revenue
from taxes.
 sector for example tourist - For example, all
guide etc travellers who are
leaving from Malaysian
-
airports are subjected
to departure levy
starting June 2019. The
levy will be RM20 for
passengers flying for
ASEAN countries and
RM40 for other
countries.

- The government expects

to collect few hundred
million ringgit annually
with the introduction of
departure levy. (The
Star, 12 November
2018)

- Generate jobs for

airlines pilots and
steward/stewardes

Weather climate (Tikah) (Tikah)

-Malaysia is blessed with
warm moderate all year
round, the average of
malaysian weather yearly
is 30 degree celcius.

(Nisa) (Nisa) (Nisa)

Travel abroad is better (Faizal) (Tikah/Nisa)

Learn more about foreign - We can develop cultural - As home of multi-
country’s history and sensitivity and appreciate ethnics, Malaysia is home
heritage the difference. of diverse cultural which
attract million of foreign
 - Conduct a research visitors each year.
before visiting a foreign
country. It will be worth to
finding out about the -There are still a lot to
social structure, religious learn about ethnic cultures
practices. in Malaysia especially in
Sabah & Sarawak.
- Being aware of cultural
values and norms is not
only fascinating, but can
help us to understand - Explore traditional food,
international issues and taste different type of food.
conflicts.
- According to the author
of ‘The Psychological
Aspects of Travel
Abroad’, travel abroad is
an important way in which
one may learn of other
cultures, which is essential
today more than ever as
the world becoming
smaller and smaller day by
day.
- Mary Helen
Immordino-Yang, an
associate professor at the
University of Southern
California says that
cross-cultural experience
have the potential to
strengthen a person’s
sense of self. (The
Atlantic, 2015)
Travelling abroad became (Fiza) (Tikah/Nisa)
more affordable
-A trip abroad now -Travelling in Malaysia
became cheaper because of more affordable because a
budget airlines offering many mode of
flight tickets at low price transportation are available
e.g Air Asia as their tag- e.g ETS, buses
line “Now Everyone Can
Fly”
-Cheaper public
-They offer promotion
transportation for citizen
deals to people travel
 abroad rate

-People can use several - Travelling in own

travel applications such as country can remove the
AirBnB, Agoda, need for expensive airfare
Booking.Com, Traveloka and airport tax.
and other to get lower
-
price for hotel rates and
ticket flights.

(Fiza) (Fiza) (Fiza)

(Faizal) (Faizal) (Faizal)

Learn new language to
embrace globalization - It is a good opportunity
- Learning a new
to learn new language
language is depends on
when travelling abroad.
the person attitude
This is an excellent skill
itself
that can be add to
- Some expatriates who
resume/CV
are living in Malaysia
for many years still
- Travel abroad the best
cannot converse in
way to learn new
Malay.
language because of we
- We can learn foreign
can interact with native
language in Malaysia
speaker itself on daily
too.
basis.
- For example, no need
to pay expensive
- Hannah Petersen,
airfares just learn
author of Greenheart
Korean language
Travel blog argues that
because many
in the globalizing world
language centres in
it really can only benefit
Malaysia offer Korean
to speak another
and other languages
language.(Greenheart
course.
Travel, 2018)
REFERENCE

Chin, Chester (2018, June 8). Malaysian passport climbs global ranking; Singapore moves
down. Star2.com
Retrieved from https://www.star2.com/travel/2018/06/08/malaysian-passport-ranking/
Crane, Brent (2015, Mar 31). For a more creative brain, travel. The Atlantic
Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/03/for-a-more-creative-
brain-travel/388135/

Petersen, Hannah (2018). 6 Reasons why travelling abroad is important for young people.
Retrived from https://greenhearttravel.org/language-camps/6-reasons-why-traveling-abroad-
is-important-for-young-people

Shumate-Fowler, Alison Malyn, (1995). "The Psychological Aspects of Travel Abroad"

University of Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects.
Tan, Vincent (2018, Nov 12). Loke : Departure levy goes to government, PSC to MAHB.
The Star
Retrieved from https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2018/11/12/loke-departure-levy-
goes-to-government-psc-to-airports/