GEORGE TOWN, July 23- Tourism Malaysia in collaboration with Malaysia Aviation Group (MAG)and Bank Rayat, launches Fly Borneo Specials Vol.2″– The Adventure Begins Here!’ travel package. Tourism Malaysia deputy chairman Dato Yeoh Soon Hin said the aim is to promote interstate travel holiday packages in Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan through airline partners Firefly and MASwings….
KOTA KINABALU: According to Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor, the Sail Malaysia Passage to the East Yacht Rally 2024 initiative will increase tourism in the Tuaran district. He said that this would be the participants’ first time coming together in Tuaran since the program’s launch in 2005. We are happy that this program…
KUALA LUMPUR: According to Fitch, the rebound in tourism in Asia Pacific (APAC) is anticipated to continue in 2024, but more slowly because of fewer favourable base effects. The company predicted that the region’s visiting volume will increase from 65% in 2023 to 92% of the 2019 level. This year, foreign tourism receipts in nominal…
PETALING JAYA: Analysts’ opinions of the aviation sector will become neutral as a result of corporate activities involving Capital A Bhd and Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB), which will overshadow the tourism sector’s current resurgence. According to Kenanga Research, this year’s tourist sector revival is mostly due to Capital A’s regularization plan to remove its…
KOTA KINABALU: According to Datuk Joniston Bangkuai, Sabah obtained at least 44 business opportunities from the recent Global BirdFair held in Rutland, United Kingdom. Tabin Wildlife Resort secured 19 leads at the event, which ran from Friday to Sunday (July 12–14), followed by 1 StopBorneo Wildlife with 14 leads and Borneo Nature Tours with 11…
Penang, 13 July 2024* – The Penang State Executive Councillor for Tourism and Creative Economy (PETACE), YB Wong Hon Wai, delivered an inspiring speech at the MITM Travel Fair, outlining the remarkable progress and prospects of Penang’s tourism sector. As the largest international travel fair in Northern Malaysia, the event highlighted Penang’s emergence as a…
KUALA LUMPUR: On July 1, police arrested 15 persons in a raid that severely damaged a network engaged in tourism package scams. The suspects were taken into custody in an office here, according to Datuk Seri Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf, director of the Federal Commercial Crime Investigation Department. “During the raid, 15 individuals, comprising 12 men…
July 13, KUALA LUMPUR — After it was discovered that the guidebooks contained numerous factual mistakes regarding the state, Tourism Melaka is returning them. Frenchman Serge Jardin posted a lengthy list of errors he discovered in the guidebook on Facebook. Among these claims is that the European invasion occurred in the fourteenth century when the…
MALAYSIA : According to Assistant Tourism, Culture, and Environment Minister Datuk Joniston Bangkuai, there are 459 homestay participants in Sabah spread across 37 registered homestay clusters. The districts’ cluster distribution looks like this: Kinabatangan (4), Kudat (1), Lahad Datu (3), Penampang (1), Pitas (1), Ranau (2), Semporna (1), Sipitang – Long Pasia (1), Tambunan (2),…
In honour of its 50th anniversary, the Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH) hosted a domestic tourist expo called “Jom Cuti-Cuti Malaysia.” One hundred fifty hotels, resorts, and other travel attractions nationwide were among the exhibitors at the two-day event held at the Pavilion Bukit Jalil Exhibition Centre in Kuala Lumpur. Organizing chairman and MAH vice-president…
