Legal Perspective of Homestay Concept in Malaysia: Hidden Facts or Truth Revealed?

Wong Hua Siong

2018

Abstract

Homestay became one of the famous form of openness lodging and accommodation whereby visitors can rest at the houses in a local city and where the places that has completed and fully furnished. Instead of leaving the house vacant without occupation, nowadays most of the house owners will rent their house or rooms in the house to the visitors for short term. This concept can be called as ‘homestay’ concept in which it provides one of the platform to allow the house owners to rent their homes, rooms or apartments to their customer visitors. Furthermore, this concept enable the house owners to generate income from this platform. Without realising by the home owners, this action may lead to violation of laws and to endanger the safety of customers. The consumer organisations in Malaysia have complained about the lack of protection for customers in homestay. As such, adequate legal protection should be implemented to protect all the customers and home owners. The writer will study the provisions in the National Land Code 1965, Street, Drainage and Building Act 1974 and the Town and Country Planning Act 1976 in order to identify the legality of the concept of homestay in Malaysia. Various methods will be adopted by the writer for this paper including study of documentary, historical archives, public record in order to arrive at the findings on the legal issues of homestay concept in Malaysia with aim to safeguard better legal environment of homestay concept in Malaysia. At the end of the discussion, organisations in Malaysia may refer to the recommendations as stated for better protection for home owners and consumers in Malaysia. Howsoever, at the end of the day, the real question that needs to be addressed is whether the homestay concept in Malaysia is legal or not.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Siong W. (2018). Legal Perspective of Homestay Concept in Malaysia: Hidden Facts or Truth Revealed?.In Proceedings of the International Law Conference - Volume 1: i-NLAC, ISBN 978-989-758-482-4, pages 202-207. DOI: 10.5220/0010053202020207

in Bibtex Style

@conference{i-nlac18,
author={Wong Hua Siong},
title={Legal Perspective of Homestay Concept in Malaysia: Hidden Facts or Truth Revealed?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Law Conference - Volume 1: i-NLAC,},
year={2018},
pages={202-207},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010053202020207},
isbn={978-989-758-482-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Law Conference - Volume 1: i-NLAC,
TI - Legal Perspective of Homestay Concept in Malaysia: Hidden Facts or Truth Revealed?
SN - 978-989-758-482-4
AU - Siong W.
PY - 2018
SP - 202
EP - 207
DO - 10.5220/0010053202020207