Tourism, Arts, and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing has reminded local tourism stakeholders to prepare for an anticipated surge in tourist arrivals in Malaysia.
Speaking on Monday (Dec 4) after chairing the first organizational meeting for World Tourism Day 2025 and the World Tourism Conference 2025, the minister also noted proactive efforts to promote Malaysian tourism in China and India, leveraging the recent 30-day visa exemption offered to Chinese and Indian tourists.
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Speaking on Monday (Dec 4) after chairing the first organizational meeting for World Tourism Day 2025 and the World Tourism Conference 2025, the minister also noted proactive efforts to promote Malaysian tourism in China and India, leveraging the recent 30-day visa exemption offered to Chinese and Indian tourists.
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00:00 Do you have any targeted numbers for the Chinese and Indian companies in consideration for that year?
00:07 We do have a target, but I'm not going to announce it yet.
00:12 I want to see after we get the visa from China or India,
00:22 I want to see the number of days we can do the budget.
00:28 We haven't even studied the budget for the next 2-3 days.
00:36 We can't do the budget if we don't have a target.
00:39 Is it expecting many tourists will come here at Christmas period and they will bring the revenue to the local?
00:48 Of course. We are taking this matter seriously.
00:53 We are helping all the businesses to increase their income from tourists.
01:01 We have seen the strategic framework from the immigration office.
01:10 In general, from January 1st to 15th, we have received 26 million IDR from foreigners.
01:25 We hope that we can get more people to come here before the year ends.
01:40 We will try our best.
01:42 Is there any additional capacity to accommodate the many tourists from China and India?
01:53 We will try to do more promotions in each country to increase the number of tourists.
02:05 How about the local capacity to handle all this?
02:09 We have informed the industry players. They have agreed.
02:17 That's why we will do more series of changes to help the industry players to accept the inbound work.
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