Among D-8 Countries, Malaysia and Turkey Ahead in Tourism Opportunities
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | October 29, 2008 by
Malaysian tourism authorities are pulling out all the stops as they set out to woo more big-spending visitors, local media reported on Monday, as quoted by Xinhua news agency.
The target is to attract 21.5 million tourists this year, especially well-heeled and long-haul visitors from the Arab and East Asian countries. The ambitious plan is expected to rake in 50 billion ringgit in tourism revenue.
The move was spurred by the success of the Visit Malaysia Year 2007 campaign, which the Tourism Ministry estimated had brought in 20.7 million tourists and total tourist receipts of 45.7 billion ringgit. It is also in line with remarks by Malaysian Dy PM Najib Razak last month, urging the Tourism Ministry to focus on ultra-rich tourists.
Such “quality tourists” would bring in more revenue as they would usually spend twice more than the average tourist, deputy Tourism Minister Donald Lim Siang Chai said after opening a Chinese calligraphy and painting exhibition here on Sunday.
D-8 countries posses a great deal of potency in tourism sector. Malaysia, Turkey, Indonesia, Egypt, and Iran are the member countries that record high percentage of tourist arrival growth each year. In the framework of cooperation, D-8 also underlines the importance of boosting a more intense work on D-8 tourism sector. In fact, D-8 organization has already prepared Roadmap for 2008-2018 where the cooperation in aviation, tourism, trade and industries are among sectors significantly highlighted.
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