Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email Kind of true. While I was on Langkawi few weeks back, saw more than usual number of young Indian couples coming for honeymoon. There were at least 10 couples in the flight itself while going and returning.
More Indian tourists drawn to Malaysia
MORE rich tourists from India are visiting South-East Asia, enticed by irresistible travel packages at competitive rates, and Malaysia appears to be their top holiday destination in the region, reported Tamil Nesan.
Tourist traffic from India to Malaysia continued to grow, touching 315,000 visitors this year until September, compared to 270,000 for the whole of last year, and Indian travellers here have spent about RM724.7mil so far this year.
Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board director for India P. Manoharan said his agency was successfully marketing Malaysia as an exciting and affordable tourist destination, which helped draw more Indian tourists here, especially during the year-end.
He said the uncompromising hospitality industry and affordable hotel rates, scenic vistas and a friendly cosmopolitan population, were the major draws.
Furthermore, he said, Indian destinations became expensive at the year-end, due to visiting international tourists and non-resident Indians returning home for festivals and marriages during the auspicious period.
He added that it was far more expensive for Indians to go on local holidays at this time because demand was high. It would cost them 30-40% less to come to Malaysia, he said.
> Malaysian Indian Business Association president P. Sivakumar has urged the Government to have a quota system for the employment of Indians in the government sector, reported Makkal Osai.
He said this would help to fill up the shortage of non-bumiputras in the government sector.
