Changes considered for more aggressive tourism promotion

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There are things that our current Tourism Minister decides which hits the nail on the head.

There are many tourism offices around the world. Do you think that they are doing their work to promote our country? I have been to some, and to be fair ... some do really do their work and I think that some just waste our tax payers money. I do not want to name which offices .. as this may be a bit too much for this light reading materials.

Anyway, I am all for it Tengku Adnan. Look at your statistics if you may and inform us whether those particular offices are making profits for our country. Congratulations on our campaigns for VMY2007, you can really see the differences in some of the cable satelite televisions on Malaysia Tourism Campaign. I really do feel proud of watching the adverts. Still, when it comes to the weather forecast, a puny country such as Singapore gets the spotlight more, by mentioning the temperature, and the list goes on to Jakarta, Bangkok, Manila and never Kuala Lumpur. Oh well, I guess we need to lobby some of these channels to be fair.

Its a little bit difficult to understand things though. Here we have a tourism office in Milan where there was never a flight that flights direct to Kuala Lumpur or any other destinations in Malaysia. How on earth is Milan going to justify our existence? Hmmmm. And why do we need to put our embassies very much apart in its location than that of Tourism Malaysia? Perhaps ... its helping out the Tourism Office in Milan ... but I am not sure whether thats what is happening.

I think, Tourism Malaysia and Malaysia Airlines should have their own offices located in the same building. What the heck, why dont we have our embassy office in the same building too? To make it more uncomfortable, why dont we have our MITI offices at the same place. Make it a Malaysian kampung? One centre where you cacn get almost anything you wish to have about Malaysia under one roof. That would be nice .. wouldnt it ?

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