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Indian weddings on focus

Roslina Arbak, CEO, Desaru Developmen­t Holdings, Desaru Coast, claims that India is a huge market for leisure, conference­s as well as weddings.

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Desaru Coast is targeting the Indian market for leisure as well as the MiCE segment, reveals Roslina Arbak, CEO, Desaru Developmen­t are a new destinatio­n for internatio­nal markets as well as the local market with our products coming in mainstream since last year. Hence, we are now targeting the Indian market for both business and leisure segment. In fact, we are arriving out of Singapore, to Singapore is only an hour and a half drive and only a

She revealed that they have already launched many prod have two golf courses which have been in operation for the last two years. We also opened the Desaru Coast Adventure Hard Rock Hotel Desaru Coast, open since September 2018, is also looking to increase the inventory of rooms soon. We already opened the Desaru Coast Conference Centre with a capacity of 1000 in a banquet arrangemen­t. We also have a retail village,” she added. are set to come up in the des on the MiCE market in India as well as the weddings segment. Our conference centre and the different outdoor venues could of a wedding,” she added. However, for MiCE they can only take groups of not more She claimed that the recent visa fee waiver would further help them get good arrival happy that this has come at the right time and augurs really well with our intentions of bringing in the arrivals of the Indian travellers into Malaysia,” added Arbak. Desaru Coast works with the Indian travel trade on packaging and marketing, focusing on Tier-II and Tier-III markets in India. I believe that India is a huge opportunit­y that we cannot ignore.”

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Roslina Arbak CEO, Desaru Developmen­t Holdings, Desaru Coast

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