Malaysia tourism industry players ready for reopening of borders: Minister

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KUCHING: Malaysia\u0027s Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (MOTAC) is confident that tourism industry players are ready to receive foreign tourists when the country\u0027s borders reopen on Apr 1. Its minister Nancy Shukri said that her ministry had held meetings with tourism industry players before the decision

on Mar 16 said that MOTAC was targeting 2 million tourist arrivals in Malaysia this year leading to revenue of more than RM6.8 billion .said to achieve the target of 2 million tourist arrivals, MOTAC had formulated various strategies to achieve the goal.“This is one of our ways to bring in tourists, we have also managed to bid for certain business events to be organised in Malaysia.

"If we only focus on regular tourism, it may be difficult to reach a high number of tourists, so we need to create opportunities for MICE events to help industry players," she said.

 

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