George Town Festival is an annual, month-long celebration of culture, heritage, art and community. Inaugurated in 2010 in honour of George Town’s designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the festival transforms the city into [Read More…]
Kuala Terengganu, the provincial capital city of the State of the same name on Peninsular Malaysia East Coast tries to lure more travellers by painting the walls and facades of its old town in bright [Read More…]
Borneo Orang Utans Could Have the Same Fate than Mauritius Dodos as some 2,500 apes are killed each year on Southeast Asia largest island. Do you remember the mythical Dodo, a large bird endemic to [Read More…]
Indonesia Lion Air Group is expanding its network with new destinations flown also by its subsidiaries in Malaysia (Malindo Air) and in Thailand (Thai Lion Air). The group continues to extend its presence into new [Read More…]
Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo claim that most of the money from the new tourism tax will directly go to the coffers of the Federal Ministry of Budget without any benefits for local revenues. [Read More…]
AirAsia X and AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes announced last year that he was pretty sure to reopen a route to Europe, most probably London but also possibly Moscow and Istanbul in a bid to [Read More…]
Joe Sidek is the director of one of Malaysia best known festivals, the 7-year old George Town Festival. He is launching this year a new Festival in Kuching Sarawak, the Rainforest Fringe Festival from July [Read More…]
“They are not present this year? ” The question circulated among professionals last March at Paris Salon Mondial du Tourisme, B2C event. The regretted absent was in fact the French office of the Malaysian Tourism [Read More…]
Malaysia Airlines’ new dedicated carrier for its Haj and Umrah flights is expected to begin operations by the end of next year, announced recently MAS Chief Executive Officer, Peter Bellew. The future airline will take [Read More…]
On June 1, Malaysia’s Ministry of Tourism and Culture introduced a new hotel classification and rating system, that has been judged fairer and more accurate than the previous classification according to hoteliers and professionals in [Read More…]
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