{"id":58607,"date":"2020-01-15T14:20:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T06:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58607"},"modified":"2020-01-15T14:41:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T06:41:08","slug":"visit-malaysia-2020-can-be-a-big-feast-for-all-malaysians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58607","title":{"rendered":"Visit Malaysia 2020 can be a ‘big feast’ for all Malaysians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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All Malaysians have been called to do their part in order to make the Visit Malaysia 2020 an economic and nation building success. Efforts nationwide are being made to make Malaysia an attractive and competitive tourist destination.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 15\u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) — The Visit Malaysia 2020 (VM2020) year-long effort is like throwing a big feast for all Malaysians as it is expected to bring economic spillover nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tourism Malaysia director-general Musa Yusof said VM2020 is a national agenda that requires the involvement of all parties whether from the urban or rural areas to jointly promote it and get themselves ready to welcome the \u201cguests\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMalaysia welcomes the world, we want to make the VM2020 campaign as a big feast to welcome the \u2018guests\u2019, therefore there must be proper decorations, we have to clean our \u2018house\u2019 and be well prepared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTourists who have come to Malaysia will share their experience with their friends and give recommendations on whether or not they should visit Malaysia,\u201d he said when appearing as a guest on the ‘Ruang Bicara’ programme aired on Bernama TV recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Musa said the involvement of all parties would also help the country achieve the 30 million tourist arrivals and RM100 billion revenue target set in conjunction with VM2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe consider VM2020 as a big feast for all Malaysians, let’s prepare our \u2018house\u2019 and greet the tourists with a big smile, attract them to visit our country and provide them with the best services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBased on our survey, 80 per cent of tourists who have visited Malaysia will come again, this is what we want,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, in order to ensure a more balanced economic spillover between urban and rural areas, Musa called for more efforts to be made to promote rural tourism, among others, through homestay service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor example, the homestay industry in the village areas in Cameron Highlands (in Pahang) alone can generate an income of RM2 million per year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

— NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 15\u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) — The Visit Malaysia 2020 (VM2020) year-long effort is like throwing a big feast for all Malaysians as it is expected to bring economic spillover nationwide. Tourism Malaysia director-general Musa Yusof said VM2020 is a national agenda that requires the involvement of all parties whether from the urban or rural areas to jointly promote it and get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":45615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58607"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}