Travel and Tourism Industry News

If you are a resident of Kuala Lumpur and are asked where the historical attractions are, what would you say? And if you have watched the popular reality series, The Amazing Race Asia, did you recognize the places in KL that the show featured? Many KL residents admit that they have never taken a photo [...]

CapitaLand’s wholly-owned serviced residence business unit, The Ascott Limited (Ascott), today launched its first Citadines serviced residence in Malaysia – Citadines Kuching Uplands. This reinforces Ascott’s lead as the largest international serviced residence owner-operator in the country. With Citadines Kuching Uplands and other properties due to open in Malaysia, Ascott’s operating apartments in the country [...]

Malaysia targeted one million tourist arrivals fron China this year, said Tourism Malaysia chairman Datuk Victor Wee. He said towards the end, promotion efforts were being intensified not only in the big cities in China but also smaller ones in view of the population size of China. “China is a very big market for us, [...]

Kuala Lumpur has been ranked among the top three cities for business in Asia in the SmartTravelAsia.com’s 2009 Best in Travel Poll. The Malaysian capital, ranked fourth last year, finished behind Hong Kong which remained the top city for business, followed by Singapore, while Bangkok, the “City of Angels”, dropped one rung to fourth. SmartTravelAsia.com, [...]

Indonesian tourism players are being facilitated to participate in a Malaysian tour and travel promotion event called Matta Fair 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from September 4 to 6, 2009. “We are facilitating tourism players to participate in Matta Fair 2009,” said I Gde Pitana, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism international promotion director, said [...]

The Thistle Port Dickson Resort, the first Thistle hotel to open outside of the United Kingdom, was officially opened by the Malaysian Minister of Tourism, Dato’ Sri Ng Yen Yen on Tuesday. The Thistle Port Dickson Resort is located just an hour’s drive south of Kuala Lumpur and a four hour drive from Singapore. The [...]

Sipadan island, one of the best diving spots in the world, is set to qualify for the final round of the New Seven Wonders of Nature search. State Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun said that based on the unofficial result of the search, which ended yesterday, Sipadan was said to be in [...]