Jonker Street – once bustling, now dying with over 20 businesses shuttered
PETALING JAYA (Aug 9): The once bustling Jonker Street in Melaka is is succumbing to the Covid-19 pandemic.
PETALING JAYA (Aug 9): The once bustling Jonker Street in Melaka is is succumbing to the Covid-19 pandemic.
KUALA LUMPUR (March 11): With tourism receipts down 85% in 2020 in tandem with the drop in international tourist arrivals, industry players see the domestic market as its lifeline and route to recovery.
KUALA LUMPUR (March 10): Malaysia’s 2020 tourist receipts plunged 85.
KUALA LUMPUR (July 15): The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (MOTAC) is forecasting a 75% drop in tourist arrivals for 2020, as compared to the preceding year, given the gloomy sentiment on international travel due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
KUALA LUMPUR (April 30): Russian couple Yevgeny and Natalia Pervin never expected that their dream of touring South East Asia would lead to them being stranded in Kuala Lumpur and their second child Ivan being born in an abandoned property in the heart of town, Malaysiakini reported today.
KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 3): China has been Malaysia’s third biggest tourist source country after Singapore and Indonesia since 2012, displacing Thailand from the top three.
PETALING JAYA (Aug 9): China’s recent economic slowdown has not seemed to curtail its citizens from holidaying abroad, and Malaysia has been one of the beneficiairies of it.
KUALA LUMPUR (July 25): More power for women, and more facilities for them too! Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin announced today that Malaysia will have its first women-friendly sports complex in three years, reported Bernama.
KUALA LUMPUR (June 11): The Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH) had today proposed that the government abolish its RM10 per room per night tourism tax to grow foreign tourist arrivals.