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Malaysia has acceptable a people of 21 lakh tourer arrivals from India successful 2026, Nuwal Fadhilahbinti Ku Azmi, Senior Director, International Promotions (Asia/Africa) Division, Tourism Malaysia, said astatine the Sales Mission 2026 held successful Coimbatore connected Wednesday.
Tourism Malaysia (Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board) organised the Sales Mission successful concern with the Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (MATTA) arsenic portion of efforts to fortify engagement with the Indian question trade.
The programme brought unneurotic 49 tourism suppliers from Malaysia and question commercialized partners from the Coimbatore region.
She said India remains a cardinal root market, with tourer arrivals expanding to 15,65,194 successful 2025 from 13,65,387 successful 2024, registering a maturation of 14.6%.
Addressing the programme, Tourism Malaysia Chairman Datuk Manoharan Periasamy said the organisation is strengthening commercialized partnerships portion promoting segments specified arsenic leisure travel, household holidays, land tourism, shopping, culture, nature-based experiences, and wedding tourism. He said the Sales Mission served arsenic a level to link Malaysian tourism suppliers with Indian question commercialized partners and physique semipermanent collaboration.
Hishamuddin Mustafa, Director of Tourism Malaysia, Chennai, said question request is supported by aerial connectivity betwixt the 2 countries, with 238 play nonstop flights offering 47,399 seats from 14 Indian cities. He said South India contributes 151 play nonstop flights, accounting for 29,541 seats, and added that Coimbatore is an important outbound marketplace successful Tourism Malaysia’s South India strategy.
