Sarawak will have another wildlife sanctuary, the second in the state to meet the needs of wildlife rehabilitation, near Miri in the vicinity to the border with Brunei. Miri will soon house all the protected [Read More…]
AirAsia is clashing with Malaysia Airports Authority MAHB- which runs KLIA1 and KLIA2, over airport’s fees. The airline group just filed a lawsuit claiming RM479.78 million (US$115 million) to the airport’s operator. The feud continues [Read More…]
Could Japan Airlines step into the capital of embattled national carrier Malaysia Airlines. Rumours about a possible entry of the Japanese carrier in MAS shook up the country’s political world ten days ago… On September [Read More…]
The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) announced that the PATA Adventure Travel Conference and Mart 2020 (ATCM 2020) will be held in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah at the Sutera Harbour Resort from February 12-14. The announcement was made by Mr. [Read More…]
YTL Hotels recently signed a new agreement with Marriott International to bring the AC Hotels by Marriott to Malaysia. Under the agreement, three existing hotels in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Kuantan will be under the brand. YTL [Read More…]
Inbound travel shows are successfully organised every year in ASEAN countries such as Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines or Vietnam. Malaysia will join in 2020 with a new show called MTTM (Malaysia Tourism and Travel Mart) [Read More…]
While a new departure tax entered into application on September 1st, the Malaysian government announced a reduction in the passenger service charges (PSC) for international flights at all airports in Malaysia, except Kuala Lumpur International [Read More…]
In a bid to boost tourism and further promote the Land of the Hornbills as a brand, the Sarawak Tourism Board (STB) signed an agreement to collaborate with low-cost airline AirAsia and local advertising company [Read More…]
AirAsia is the largest winner of the new attribution of traffic rights by the Malaysian Aviation Authority MAVCOM. The low cost carrier has been granted five new routes including two exclusive ones to unserved Indonesian [Read More…]
While international arrivals stagnated in 2018 with a slight decrease of 0.4% over 2017 (25.83 million international visitors), Tourism Malaysia revealed in a recent press conference that domestic tourism continues to thrive with double-digit growth [Read More…]
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