HAVANA, July 21 — Malaysia and Cuba are exploring the potential for cooperation in the tourism sector, key to their economic development, said Mohd Akbal Setia, Vice President...
HAVANA, July 21 — Malaysia and Cuba are exploring the potential for cooperation in the tourism sector, key to their economic development, said Mohd Akbal Setia, Vice President of Tourism Malaysia.
He had held a meeting with officials from the Cuban Ministry of Tourism, with whom he agreed that their respective countries have potential to establish profitable cooperation in this field for mutual benefit. Also present at the meeting was Malaysian Charge d’Affairs to Cuba Chenderawasih Abdul Malak.
During his presentation, Mohd Akbal whose office is based in Los Angeles, United States, outlined the richness and diversity of the tourism products, and that the Malaysian destinations received an average of 26 million visitors per year, before the Covid-19 pandemic broke out at the beginning of 2020.Due to the pandemic, arrivals plummeted from 26.1 million in 2019 to 4,332,722 in 2020, a figure that bottomed out in 2021 with only 134,728 tourists setting foot on Malaysian soil.
Already in 2022 when the doors began to reopen, the number of visitors rose to almost 3 million, a figure that is still insufficient since it represents only 12 per cent of the arrivals in 2019. Authorities of the sector indicated that 2023 began more auspicious and thanks to enormous promotional efforts they are targeting 16 million arrivals.
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