Screenshot of matta.travel
THE Malaysia Association of Tour and Travel Agents (MATTA) is urging its members to sell their packages on matta.travel, the association’s newly-launched B2C online marketplace.
Having gone live yesterday, the portal currently has more than 340 domestic packages submitted by more than 100 members and is the largest travel package portal in the world, according to Rohizam Md Yusoff, deputy president at MATTA.
Features of the portal include subsections for outbound packages, halal tours, Umrah (pilgrimage to Mecca that can be undertaken any time of the year) and special needs.
Rohizam, who is also CEO of Creative Advances Technology, the company that developed the portal, said: “We are targeting 700 packages to be online by this year-end.”
The number he quoted isn’t far-fetched considering that MATTA has 3,200 members.
“MATTA will promote the site locally, regionally and globally as well as actively use it during MATTA fairs,” said Hamzah Rahmat, president of MATTA.
Creation of the portal is MATTA’s way of offering opportunities for members to sell their products online, while at the same time eliminating unlicensed operators, as only MATTA members are allowed access to sell.
