TravTalk - Middle East

GTS kicks off for 2021

Two days of collaborat­ion between the travel trade on March 31 and April 1, 2021, once again promises a great line-up of speakers at insightful sessions about the industry.

- Shehara Rizly

Tthe ourism Malaysia will be the Diamond partner at Gulf Travel Show 2021 with some of their key partners in their very own pavilion. Great success in 2020 with 30 plus exhibitors, 6000 one-to-one meetings, and 2,500 visitors from 59 countries which included travel agents, tour operators, tourism boards, airlines, hotels, travel management companies and internatio­nal agencies encouraged the emergence of a second edition.

Shahrin Mokhtar, Director of Tourism Malaysia – Dubai, shared, “Tourism Malaysia is pleased to participat­e in GTS 2021 for the second year. Last year we have witnessed the success of GTS as an excellent networking platform that brought together the tourism industry virtually. This year Tourism Malaysia is back stronger as GTS’ Diamond partner with synergy between the three regional offices (TM Dubai, TM Jeddah & TM India),

Gulf Travel Show is very important to show our continuous commitment in promoting and profiling Malaysia as the foremost holiday destinatio­n in the Middle East and North Africa markets. We will firstly pick up from our promotion activities which were halted last year. Then we will collaborat­e with partners in developing new holiday packages to Malaysia. Obviously there are new norms such as social distancing, avoiding unnecessar­y gatherings, and conducting virtual conference­s and webinars. So our objective is that we need partners to convert our marketing efforts into sales.

seven hotels and three tour operators. Tourism Malaysia is keen to keep the communicat­ion open with the trade partners in order to revive travel once Malaysia opens its borders. In GTS

2021 we are glad to announce our first unique digital press conference where the media will have the opportunit­y to interact with Tourism Malaysia senior officers and get updates on the latest products.”

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Putra Hilmy Elias Director of Tourism Malaysia, Jeddah
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Tourism Malaysia – Dubai
Shahrin Mokhtar Director Tourism Malaysia – Dubai

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