Malaysian International Tourism Exchange 2012

Today I went to this event held at Malaysian AgroExposition Park Serdang (MAEPS). The event starts on 31 May 2012 and will end 3rd June 2012. This is an international tourism event organised by Torism Malaysia.

The whole event was held at the exhibition hall A (Local and and International Companies) Hall C  ( SMEs and Ecolifestyles) B. Hall D (Ground Floor) is the Food Court. The exhibition venue and quite represented by tourism stake holders. There are the official government tourism agencies: national and state, tour agents, tour related agencies and foreign National Tourism Organisations. 
I am not sure whether this is a working day (Friday) that the turnout was quite a dismal. I was surprise that there is not many visitors as shown by the number of cars at the carpark. Maybe there will be more visitors on Saturday and Sunday.

I think the organiser made a bad choice of venue which is quite far from the city and way out of the  the public transport route. It would be better if it is organised at KLCC or PWTC when at the same time there is also another International tourism event going on, the World Islamic Tourism Mart.

The exhibition is well represented by the 14 states in Malaysia besides tour agents with their competitive tour packages. Besides the states Tourism Council, I was surprise too by the absence of our national carrier, MAS. Firefly and Airasia made their appearance.

I went in the afternoon and sad to see that many booth are empty especially those represented by foreign NTOs. Among the foreign NTOs who came to “sell” tourism includes Taiwan, Cambodia, Mozambique, Kenya, Thailand, Cuba, Kerala and Madya Pradesh,India, Maldives and China Muslim Tourism Promotional Event.


According to the exhibition show map there are a few more other countries represented but during my visit I did not see them around. Malaysia by the way are represented by Ministry of tourism, State Pavilion, Hotels, resorts, tour & travels and other tour related services. There is also the Health Tourism sector, Education Tourism, M.I.C.E. Recreational and Adventure tourism but sports tourism is only represented by Golf and extreme sports.

At one end of the hall there is also The Malaysian Contemporary Art Exhibition


At the end of the day, this much brochure, leaflets and pamphlets I took home. I hope I will have time to read, digest and write posts on my Armchair Travelogue blog.

MITBCA2012

I personally praise Ministry of Tourism Malaysia and Social Media Chamber Malaysia for a successful conference that I think spark part of the participants to join onto the social media bandwagon especially on the two most talked about topic, blogging and twittering. 

MITBCA2012 short for Malaysian International Tourism Bloggers Conference and Awards 2012 was held at Seri Pacific Hotel Ballroom, in Jalan Putra, Kuala Lumpur on 8 and 9 May 2012. More than 430 delegates were present and according to the organiser was oversold. Well, I think they did not expect there are so many social media enthusiast who are interested in tourism, around in Malaysia. However the conference did show that there are many people on social media and MOTOUR can be sure that they can spread about tourism in Malaysia through those social media rats who are willing to share what is in store around the country when tourism is at stake. 

 With Shane Dallas - traveler, writer who call himself as The Travel Camel. He writes his travel experience on travelblog.

This is Sheila Scarborough, Co founder - tourism Currents & professional specializing in tourism, travel and social media.

Founder and owner of travelblog.org Alistair Watters

The conference was officiated by The Hon. Minister of Tourism, Dato' Sri Ng Yen Yen with a keynote address.

To read what was presented during the conference CLICK HERE

Malaysia International Tourism Bloggers Conference and Awards

This year Ministry of tourism Malaysia will be organising the inaugural Conference (MITBCA2012) and coinciding with it is an award for bloggers who blog about Tourism and Malaysia. This event is in colloboration with Social Media Chambers of Malaysia. The conference will be held at Seri Pacific Hotel Kuala Lumpur on 8th and 9th May 2012 while the Awards at Saloma Bistro, in Jalan Ampang.

Organising this conference means Ministry of Tourism (MOTOUR) has took on social media to reach the public and promote Malaysia as a tourism destination while at the same time honouring tourism bloggers for helping promoting the country across the globe.

The two days conference is expected to be attended by social media aggregators, media personnels and those in the tourism industry. There are also invited speakers and I found one while doing a search on the internet. Of course I have registered myself.

The bloggers award will be held at Saloma Bistro just next to MOTOUR. Nomination for the award will still be open until 24th April and nomination criteria can be found HERE. Voting has already been open and will end on 1st of May 2012.

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