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India remains 1 of Malaysia’s cardinal root markets with tourer inflows signaling 1.56 cardinal successful 2025 compared to 1.36 cardinal successful 2024, registering 14.6% growth, said Datuk Manoharan Periasamy, Chairman, Tourism Malaysia, and Nuwul Fadhilahbinti Ku Azmi, Senior Director, International Promotions (Asia/Africa) Division, Tourism Malaysia.
A squad of officials from Tourism Malaysia and representatives of Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (MATTA) and 49 sellers from Malaysia and question and commercialized partners from Andhra Pradesh were successful the metropolis connected Monday (February 09, 2026) arsenic portion of Tourism Malaysia Sales Mission 2026.
Addressing a media league connected the occasion, Mr. Periaswamy and Ms. Nuwul said that Malaysia was targetting 2.1 cardinal arrivals from India, this year, arsenic portion of the Visit Malaysia Year 2026 (VMY 2026).
They said that Scoot, a subsidiary of Singapore International Airlines, was offering convenient connections from Visakhapatnam to Kuala Lumpur via Singapore, with 4 flights a week from Visakhapatnam. There are 238 play nonstop flights offering 47,399 seats from 14 Indian cities. These see 151 play nonstop flights and 29,541 seats from South India, they added.
Ms. Nuwul said that India was the archetypal country, wherever Tourism Malaysia was doing income promotion. The archetypal conscionable was successful Visakhapatnam and it would beryllium followed by a conscionable successful Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
She said that Malaysia has go a overmuch sought aft wedding destination for Indians. “Indians are comfy with Malaysian culture, which has rather a fewer similarities with Indian culture. Malaysia offers varied cuisine that would beryllium a gastronomic’s delight,” she added.
Hishamuddin Mustafa, Director, Tourism Malaysia Chennai (South India and Sri Lanka) and Ganneesh Ramaa, vice-president inbound and home of the Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (MATTA), were besides present.
