World Geography of Travel and Tourism: A Regional Approach
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Followed by increasing in Malaysia tourist Arrival 2009, Melaka also received great number of tourist arrival in 2009. Local tourist was the biggest contributor last year with 7.2 mil local tourist visiting Melaka last year. 6 times the number of Melaka [...]

Information from Tourism Malaysia Media Release recently shown that tourist arrival for Malaysia in 2009 surpassed the 19 million target set by the government.

More details about the Tourist Arrival media release from Malaysia here.

Melaka A Famosa Panoramic view by Jan.

While Many of neighboring country falling their target for 2008, Melaka shoot to beat the targeted 6.8 million tourist arrival for 2008. Melaka had incoming 7.2 million tourist last year with 84% of it from domestic visitors or 6 million and remaining 14% or 1.2 million from foreign tourist. [...]

Jammed pack with tourist!..

Melaka won’t stop promoting although the count down to 2009 are just few days ahead. From early December to the end, the state government with ‘Jom Ke Melaka’ (Come! Let’s Go to Melaka) programmed aim to boost domestic tourist arrival. ‘Jom Ke Melaka’ is a road show starting from Ipoh, Kota Bharu, [...]

Global scenarios that affect tourist arrival in Malaysia..

There is a new trend now that Terrorist tend to strike on famous tourism places. Latest is at Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai India. We know that terrorism is the most big threat to the industry since 9/11 tragedy. Before that, among famous Island in the world, Bali has [...]

Everyone in the world know what is happen to economy now. The world financial and economic crisis. As we browse through news paper and online report, many develop countries are moving into a downturn with banks collapsed and stock market fall below value. But I as a normal person live in a developing country [...]

World Economic Forum (WEF) has released World Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2008 on March. Switzerland still rank number one for the conducive environments for developing the travel & tourism industry.Austria and Germany both rank 2nd & 3rd place same like 2007 competitiveness report. Out of the list from 2007 top 10 are Iceland, [...]