Do more to promote local attractions

MATTA has been urged to do more to promote local attractions.

MATTA Fair in future should also promote tourist destinations in Perak, said senior state exco member Datuk Hamidah Osman.

She said although the fair was aimed at promoting destinations overseas, tour operators should also do more to promote local destinations such as eco-tourism in Belum and heritage trails.

Datuk Hamidah also reminded tourism players to help make Visit Perak Year in 2012 a success. “We will have seminars and meetings next year to promote Visit Perak Year 2012,” she said.

She was speaking while launching the MATTA Fair 2010 organised by the MATTA Perak Chapter at Dewan Leong Wan Chin in SMJK Perempuan Ipoh from Friday till yesterday.

Fair organising secretary Aminurrashid Abas said the event had been successfully organised for the last nine years. He said MATTA fairs had proven to be Malaysia ’s number one travel fair.

Exhibitors took up all the 80 exhibition booths in this year’s fair. Aminurrashid estimated that some 30,000 people thronged the fair during the three days.