Malaysia Launches Website To Promote Health Tourism
DUBAI, May 1 - Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor
launched the www.malaysiahealthcare.com website
to promote health tourism to Malaysia.
"It is a complete facilitator for all medical and tourism-related needs,
bringing together all related service providers on a single platform,"
he said.
The launching was held ahead of the Arabian Travel Market (ATM)
which opens here Tuesday.
The Malaysian delegation to the ATM, which is led by Tengku Adnan,
comprises senior officers of Tourism Malaysia and state tourism boards,
travel and tour agents and hotel operators.
At a news conference for the local media, Tengku Adnan said
Malaysia would go all out to woo tourists from the Gulf region
which contributed a sizeable 147,646 tourists last year.
He said tourist arrivals from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) alone
totalled 29,606 in 2005, an increase of almost 40 per cent
from the figure in 2004.
Tourists from the UAE, he added, did not require visas to enter Malaysia
and were permitted to stay in the country up to three months.
-- BERNAMA