Tag: Malaysia Travel Agents
Hope for new tourism bookings during Malaysia’s extended school holidays dashed
Malaysian tourism players have expressed disappointment at the absence of new bookings despite the government's announcement of a week-long extension to the year-end school...
MITA works to connect Malaysian tourism players with SE Asian agents
In anticipation of stiffer regional competition for the tourism pie following the pandemic, the Malaysian Inbound Tourism Association (MITA) is giving inbound players in...
Omicron disrupts Malaysia’s nascent travel revival
Growing fears over the emerging Omicron variant is threatening the budding recovery of outbound travel in Malaysia, as countries around the world rush to...
Malaysia trade urges cautious approach to reopening of Genting, Melaka, Tioman...
The Malaysian government’s planned October 1 reopening of Melaka, Genting Highlands and Tioman Island to fully vaccinated domestic tourists has been met with cautious...
Malaysian tourism players extend helping hand to needy amid pandemic
Despite the trying times the prevailing Covid-19 situation has afflicted on tourism businesses in Malaysia, industry stakeholders have stepped up to lend a helping...
Seizing a window of opportunity
Malaysia-based halal travel platform Tripfez Travel has leveraged the pandemic downtime to embark on a mergers and acquisitions spree. Executive director and co-founder Faeez Fadhlillah reveals the company’s ambitions.
Travel trade leverages downtime to upskill staff, develop tours as Malaysia...
Tour operators in Malaysia are keeping busy preparing for the reopening of borders, even as authorities extend the country's third movement control order (MCO)...
Malaysia resumes tourism fund to aid sector
The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture Malaysia (MOTAC) has resumed a tourism fund dubbed Gamelan for tourism operators to avail of for promotions...
Malaysia agents use Covid downtime to upgrade offerings
Gripped by a second lockdown, with interstate travel off the cards, tourism players in Malaysia are using the downtime to develop new products and...
Continued infections test Asian agents’ resilience
New year, new hopes for post-pandemic travel recovery, but infection surges and continued travel restrictions have provided little relief for many travel agents across Asia. In this three-part series, we find out how the travel agent community in key Asian markets are coping.
