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Media can be tourism sector's shining light
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8/9/2024
The media can play an influential role in promoting travel destinations to boost domestic tourism, said Tourism Malaysia director-general Manoharan Periasamy during his courtesy visit to the Star Media Group's headquarters on Friday (Aug 9).
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Tourism Malaysia director-general Manoharan Periasamy paid a courtesy visit to the Star
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Media Group's headquarters on Friday.
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During a discussion, the company highlighted the synergistic potential of the partnership
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with the media holds in heightening the visibility and impact of tourism initiatives.
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Manoharan said the media can play an influential role in promoting travel destinations to boost
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domestic tourism.
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One of the government objective, how do we can support the domestic players to come
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on board.
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That's why I think as Mr Das and our teams will be there to discuss and see how do we
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can focus for the domestic tourism.
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As a matter of fact, during the COVID, domestic tourism is the one supported by the industry
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player.
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Make it all, most of the industry player floating during that period.
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Foreign tourists is equally important but the domestic tourism, we needed to support
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them.
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Without them, it's very difficult for us to survive.
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I'm promoting our people to travel within the country.
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Otherwise, every long weekend, every long queue at the border, Malaysians are traveling,
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going to our neighboring country.
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This is how we wanted to promote lesser known destinations.
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And asking and telling the Malaysians, a lot of product, I mean destinations where
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you can visit within the country.
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He called on media organizations to utilize their reach effectively to showcase Malaysia's
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tourist spots.
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He said partnering with the media is a calculated step towards the rejuvenation of the tourism
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industry and ensuring that domestic travel initiatives have widespread benefits throughout
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the country.
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