Malaysia is promoting tourism as new economic activities and growth. The income generated from tourism could spur new economic activities that will result in increased household income in the participating territory. Yet one of the downside of that could be envisage is the unconscious disclosure of traditional knowledge and cultural tradition that are valuable to the local community. Indigenous knowledge that are link to genetic resources are valuable assets that could be exploited by bio-pirates under the pretext of tourism.  These genetic resources are intangible properties. The United Nation charter stated that“ Indigenous people have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their traditional knowledge and this include to protect and develop their intellectual property over such traditional knowledge”. These would include tradition-based literary, artistic or scientific works, performances, inventions, scientific discoveries, designs, marks, names and undisclosed information. This paper will highlight the danger of such disclosure by looking at some cases that had occurred overseas such as the case of  “Hoodia” and “Turmeric”. It will end with some suggestion as a guidance on some best practices that could be put in place to safeguards our traditional knowledge while spur-heading  local sustainable tourism.