SEPANG: Tourism Malaysia is actively strategising to reach a five-fold target of more than five million tourists from China this year, said its Director-General Datuk Dr Ammar Abd Ghapar (pic).
He said the strategy included increasing flight frequencies from China and encouraging new airlines in the country to consider promoting Malaysia as a top destination of choice.
“We are encouraging more charter flights (from China) to implement the initiative and for example, we are leveraging (with travel agents and airlines) to increase the frequency of flights from maybe twice a week to the target of four flights a week,” he said after welcoming Loong Air’s inaugural flight from Hangzhou, China, at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) Terminal 2 here on Thursday (Feb 2).
He said the target was also in line with the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Malaysia and…