Malaysia eyeing more visitors from Morocco

[SpArOwMe]

By Muin Abdul Majid

DUBAI, March 3 (Bernama) -- Tourism Malaysia is joining hands with tourism players in Morocco in an effort to increase the number of visitors from the north African country to Malaysia.

Its regional director for Africa, West and South Asia, Abdul Rahman Shaari, said tour operators in Morocco had shown keen interest to promote tourist destinations in Malaysia.

"We received around 7,000 visitors from Morocco. The number may be small but there is increasing interest in Malaysia among the Moroccan people," he told Bernama of his recent visit to the kingdom which included its capital Rabat and largest city, Casablanca.

Abdul Rahman said Tourism Malaysia would come up with special packages on Malaysia in collaboration with Moroccan tour operators.

"We're going to assist in terms of producing brochures and leaflets to enable them to promote our country there as well as select an airline to work with on this initiative," he said.

Abdul Rahman said Malaysia seemed to appeal to Moroccans as, being Muslim countries, both shared many commonalities.

He said that in many markets in the Middle East region, more often than not word-of-mouth played a role in tourism promotion.

"If a visitor likes his or her experience in Malaysia, then that person will spread the word around among relatives and friends.

"Of course this can be both positive and negative because if they have unpleasant episodes, then we have a problem as people here tend to believe what their friends and relatives say," he observed.

But Tourism Malaysia is not leaving any stone unturned in its bid to promote Malaysia in Morocco.

One possibility would be collaboration with a popular Moroccan singer who had expressed interest to shoot his music video clip in Malaysia, said Abdul Rahman.

He said Malaysia obtained a lot of tourism mileage when Lebanese superstar Ragheb Alama shot his music video in the Southeast Asian nation of 27 million a few years ago.

"This is niche marketing that we need to do as common methods like advertisements, disseminating brochures and so on are well and good but they can be very costly," said Abdul Rahman.

He said Tourism Malaysia was also planning to organise Malaysian food and cultural promotions in Morocco. -- BERNAMA

[Nakame]

Ils étaient au salon du tourisme de Marrakech

Ce qui serait bien, c'est que les Malaisiens viennent visiter le Maroc aussi, chose très rare, pour la plupart ils ne savent même pas le situer sur une carte..

Quant à la Malaisie c'est 27 millions de touristes pour 25 millions d'habitants

[illuminatus]

Envoyé par SpArOwMe By Muin Abdul Majid DUBAI, March 3 (Bernama) -- Tourism Malaysia is joining hands with tourism players in Morocco in an effort to increase the number of visitors from the north African country to Malaysia. Its regional director for Africa, West and South Asia, Abdul Rahman Shaari, said tour operators in Morocco had shown keen interest to promote tourist destinations in Malaysia. "We received around 7,000 visitors from Morocco. The number may be small but there is increasing interest in Malaysia among the Moroccan people," he told Bernama of his recent visit to the kingdom which included its capital Rabat and largest city, Casablanca. Abdul Rahman said Tourism Malaysia would come up with special packages on Malaysia in collaboration with Moroccan tour operators. "We're going to assist in terms of producing brochures and leaflets to enable them to promote our country there as well as select an airline to work with on this initiative," he said. Abdul Rahman said Malaysia seemed to appeal to Moroccans as, being Muslim countries, both shared many commonalities. He said that in many markets in the Middle East region, more often than not word-of-mouth played a role in tourism promotion. "If a visitor likes his or her experience in Malaysia, then that person will spread the word around among relatives and friends. "Of course this can be both positive and negative because if they have unpleasant episodes, then we have a problem as people here tend to believe what their friends and relatives say," he observed. But Tourism Malaysia is not leaving any stone unturned in its bid to promote Malaysia in Morocco. One possibility would be collaboration with a popular Moroccan singer who had expressed interest to shoot his music video clip in Malaysia, said Abdul Rahman. He said Malaysia obtained a lot of tourism mileage when Lebanese superstar Ragheb Alama shot his music video in the Southeast Asian nation of 27 million a few years ago. "This is niche marketing that we need to do as common methods like advertisements, disseminating brochures and so on are well and good but they can be very costly," said Abdul Rahman. He said Tourism Malaysia was also planning to organise Malaysian food and cultural promotions in Morocco. -- BERNAMA

I will cherish my experience in Malysia til the day i die.
such beautiful people, so innocent and so naive, ready to accept the world with a big hog.
something we lost as humans, we lost our humanity by losing our souls, but the Malay people still have that...i call it the missing link.

[Nakame]

Envoyé par illuminatus I will cherish my experience in Malysia til the day i die. such beautiful people, so innocent and so naive, ready to accept the world with a big hog. something we lost as humans, we lost our humanity by losing our souls, but the Malay people still have that...i call it the missing link.

Well it depends of the Malaysian you're talking about
There's two Malaysia:
The Malay one and the Chinese one

Malay are far more welcoming than Chinese

[illuminatus]

Envoyé par Nakame Well it depends of the Malaysian you're talking about There's two Malaysia: The Malay one and the Chinese one Malay are far more welcoming than Chinese

i had an argument with a Malaysian once who kept telling me he was chinese and not Malay.
i was like, what's your problem dude, this is a beautiful country, better than china..
but he still insisted that he was not Malay but chinese.
i guess it's like our version of being arab vs amazigh.

[Nakame]

Envoyé par illuminatus i had an argument with a Malaysian once who kept telling me he was chinese and not Malay. i was like, what's your problem dude, this is a beautiful country, better than china.. but he still insisted that he was not Malay but chinese. i guess it's like our version of being arab vs amazigh.

Yes even more than arab vs amazigh because most of them are not muslim

[illuminatus]

Envoyé par Nakame Yes even more than arab vs amazigh because most of them are not muslim

i don't want to change the subject but don't you think that the first arabs who took islam to Malaysia, Indonesia, Philipines..etc were pioneers?
i think so.

[Nakame]

Envoyé par illuminatus i don't want to change the subject but don't you think that the first arabs who took islam to Malaysia, Indonesia, Philipines..etc were pioneers? i think so.

Yep they came first and then Indian muslim finished to spread Islam on South-East Asia, I read the Arabs came by sea through the Malacca detroit between Indonesia and Malaysia and established some trading post in Malacca and Indonesia.

p.s: tu parles français?

[illuminatus]

Envoyé par Nakame Yep they came first and then Indian muslim finished to spread Islam on South-East Asia, I read the Arabs came by sea through the Malacca detroit between Indonesia and Malaysia and established some trading post in Malacca and Indonesia. p.s: tu parles français?

i always had a passion for the aboriginal people from the incas of the Amazon to the aztecs of Mexico to the Maories of New Zealand to the the Malays of Malaysia...etc
i don't know if you believe in evolution but to understand where we come from we have to go way way back to understand ourselves, isolated indeginous people give us the chance to go back and search our heritage, our ancesters...and how our culture was created.
maybe too philosophical for some or poetic for others but it was and still my passion to live within the original people and hear their side of the story.

ps.non je ne parle pas Francais, la langue de Voltaire, Moliere et Victor Hugo, mais je parle Fransawiya avec plein de fautes d'orthographes.

[Nakame]

Envoyé par illuminatus i always had a passion for the aboriginal people from the incas of the Amazon to the aztecs of Mexico to the Maories of New Zealand to the the Malays of Malaysia...etc i don't know if you believe in evolution but to understand where we come from we have to go way way back to understand ourselves, isolated indeginous people give us the chance to go back and search our heritage, our ancesters...and how our culture was created. maybe too philosophical for some or poetic for others but it was and still my passion to live within the original people and hear their side of the story. ps.non je ne parle pas Francais, la langue de Voltaire, Moliere et Victor Hugo, mais je parle Fransawiya avec plein de fautes d'orthographes.

I saw the Orang Asli in the jungle in central Malaysia and they look quite the same as the Aborigene in Australia, no Asian face at all... Very strange in this part of the world