NEW KEE ANN FOOD STREET DRAWS LARGE CROWD

Since the Kee Ann Street Food was launched on Friday, 17.5.2019, this latest event has drawn large crowd to Jalan Kee Ann. Kee Ann road will be closed to traffic from 5.00pm to 12.00 midnight on Fridays to Sundays. Visitors can eat and taste different food and eat them in the open street.

HASBRO-THEMED WATER PARK

Meridian Berhad to Develop Hasbro-Themed Water Park

Chelsea Regan 17 hours ago Top Stories

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Meridian Berhad has entered into a memorandum of understanding to develop the world’s first-ever Hasbro-themed water park.

The water park will be based on well-known Hasbro brands such as My Little Pony, Nerf and Monopoly. It will be among the attractions at Meridian Berhad’s recently launched flagship project, the Malaysia Tourism City (MTC). The MTC will sit on 600 acres in Kuala Linggi that will be allocated for leisure and entertainment, commercial, retail, residential and other public uses. The newly emerged major shareholder of Meridian, Dato’ Seth Yap Ting Hau (Dato’ Seth), is spearheading the project.

Dato’ Seth said: “Our ultimate goal for MTC is to establish a unique position that reflects MTC as ‘the destination’, that prolongs tourists’ average length of stay. Today’s signing ceremony marks a remarkable milestone between the parties. By signing the agreement, we will be entering a relationship with Hasbro to develop the world’s first themed water park based on their beloved brands, including My Little Pony, Nerf and Monopoly and more, which will be an iconic anchor attraction at the heart of the MTC master plan. The water park will be 20 acres in size, offering a wide range of new rides that are not available in other parks in Malaysia, by weaving in exclusive IP rights.”

Malaysia’s Minister of Tourism and Culture YB Datuk Mohamaddin bin Ketapi added: “With these new developments, we are optimistic that it would bring in greater inflow of tourists in the Melaka state. This does not only encourage spending in our local businesses, but it also coherently increases the employment opportunities in the Melaka state.”

RASA MELAKA- THE MUSICAL LIVE SHOW PERFORMANCE

Melaka now has another live performance staged by actors and actresses.

The live performance is held at Panggung Bangsawan, Melaka at Jalan Bendahara, Melaka.

For more details : www.rasamelaka.com

Melakans and visitors to Melaka must see this live performance.

MTEX TO BE REVIVED

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KUALA LUMPUR, 3 May 2019: The Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents successfully reintroduced a travel mart (MTEX) at the weekend that had fallen off the travel trade calendar for more than a decade.

MATTA reintroduced the national B2B travel mart partnership with Tourism Malaysia to connect Malaysian tourism players with tour operators from India and countries in ASEAN, namely, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines

The event attracted 82 Malaysian companies consisting of tour operators, hoteliers, transport operators with over 150 buyers from India and ASEAN countries

Launched 12 years ago in Melaka, the event fell by the wayside following its inaugural 2007 edition. MATTA revisited the project earlier this year and agreed to revive the show to fill a gap in reaching out to tour operators in India and neighbouring ASEAN countries.

MATTA president, Datuk Tan Kok Liang, said MTEX would support the Visit Malaysia 2020 campaign, which aims to attract 30 million tourists and MYR100bil in tourist receipts.

ASEAN countries contribute about 70% of overall tourist arrivals to Malaysia. Visits dropped to 18.million in 2018 compared to the 19.4 million in 2017.

Visits from India increased by 8.6% to 600,311 in 2018, which should increase to 683,000 this year.

MATTA announced during the show it has entered a joint venture with Grabini Malaysia Sdn Bhd to develop the association’s ‘Tourism Industry Distribution and Booking Platform.’

The platform will act as an online marketplace for the tourism industry to streamline inventory information from supporting sub-sectors for the benefit of the tourism industry across the country.

The MoU was signed by MATTA president Datuk Tan Kok Liang and Grabini managing director Maheswaran Chellathurai witnessed by Tourism Malaysia senior director strategic planning Dato’ Haji Zainuddin Abdul Wahab.

The platform will target initially travel agents and later extend to retail sales to consumers. It should be up and running by the fourth quarter of this year.

The signing ceremony took place last weekend during the MATTA Travel Exchange (MTEX) 2019 at Everly Hotel, Putrajaya.

(Source: MATTA and Star Online)