KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 2 (NNN-Bernama) — The Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (MATTA) Fair, Malaysia’s largest travel fair, will make a comeback on Nov 20-21 after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The last edition of the MATTA Fair was held in September 2019.
Its Honorary Secretary General Nigel Wong said that MATTA is looking forward to domestic tourism kick-off to help jump-start the economy, adding that the travel fair is one of the ways to do it.
“The fair that will be held at the World Trade Centre (WTC) Kuala Lumpur will be participated by international tourism organisations namely Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Japan, Turkey and Uganda to continue to promote their markets for international tourism,” he said in an online press conference today.
Meanwhile, MATTA chief executive officer Phua Tai Neng in a statement said the 49th edition of MATTA Fair has received strong support from state tourism organisations, namely Sabah, Terengganu, Sarawak, Pahang, Selangor, Johor, Kedah, Perak and Negeri Sembilan.
According to Phua, after 21 months of lockdown that severely affected the travel and tourism industry, the MATTA Fair is a significant indicator that the country’s tourism industry is back and will gradually be revived for people to travel domestically and very soon internationally as borders will eventually reopen.
MATTA is collaborating with Legoland as its partner theme park as well as with a licensed e-hailing company, GOJO.
— NNN-BERNAMA