Malaysian tourism official lauds Hyderabad’s infrastructure

HYDERABAD: Tourism Malaysia, which won four PATA (Pacific Asia Travel Association) gold awards for its global marketing initiatives, will step up its interaction with trade fraternity at the PATA -2008 to give renewed thrust to Indian market.

At the same time, Tourism Malaysia’s South and West Asia/Oceania Director Azizan Noordin acknowledged the recent commendable developments in Hyderabad’s infrastructure and said it would go a long way in building tourism between the two nations.
Maturing tourism

Mr. Azizan Noordin, leading the Malaysian delegation to PATA-2008, said that with a steadily maturing tourism market and evolving Indian traveller, they would remain focused on a target of attracting five lakh Indian tourists during the year by shifting its attention to smaller cities and towns and new initiatives such as ‘Wedding in Malaysia’, ‘Malaysia My Second Home’ among others.

Indian tourist arrivals to Malaysia registered 32 per cent growth till August this year, he said.