Talking about historic/historical confusion, recently Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam announced that, starting from September 1st,2011, where all guests at hotels, resorts, chalets, apartments and lodging facilities in Malacca will have to pay a heritage tax of five per cent surcharge on the published room rate.
This announcement was reported in the NST (New Straits Times) on 28th April, 2011, and I found this line: Ali said visitors staying in the historical city should consider the surcharge as their contribution towards the conservation of the local heritage sites.
I have read that we should not call a building, site, district, or event “historical.” For instance, sites may be of historical interest if historians are interested in them, but not just because they are old.
So, is Malacca a historic city or Melaka a historical city?
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