ACC Secretary-General Met with Chairman of Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board

On 9 December 2015, H.E. Mme. Yang Xiuping, Secretary-General of ASEAN-China Centre (ACC), met with Mr. Wee Choo Keong, Chairman of Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Senior Director Mr. Datuk Musa Hj. Yusof and Director Mr. Nor Aznan Sulaiman of the International Promotion Division of Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board also attended the meeting.

Secretary-General Yang expressed appreciation for the thoughtful preparations and arrangements rendered by Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board for the “China Millennial Travelers & Outbound Tourism Seminar”. She introduced that ACC had spared no efforts in promoting practical cooperation between ASEAN and China in the fields of trade, investment, education, culture and tourism and had achieved tangible results. The 18th ASEAN-China Summit last month reached important consensus on deepening strategic partnership between the two sides and strengthening cooperation on economic and trade, connectivity, production capacity, and people-to-people exchanges, which were the common goals for the two sides. Next year would mark the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the dialogue relations between ASEAN and China. Cooperation on tourism and people-to-people exchanges between the two sides faced new opportunities. ACC would like to further enhance communication with Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board to jointly promote tourism of Malaysia and China. 

Chairman Wee Choo Keong thanked ACC for its cooperation with Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board on hosting the Seminar. He said that the Chinese overseas tourism market had huge potentials since China had achieved great success in economic and social development and in improving people’s living standard. Although there had been a decrease of Chinese tourists to Malaysia since last year, the rich tourism resources of Malaysia would serve the various needs of Chinese tourists. Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board attached great importance to raise the profile of Malaysia in the Chinese tourism market, and would further improve tourism infrastructure and environment to meet the needs of Chinese tourists. Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board would like to take this opportunity to strengthen its cooperation with ACC and explore new promotion measures, so as to jointly promote the development of tourism in Malaysia and China.