Matta Fair September 2015
After a successful Matta March event, many visitors are looking forward to what the September travel fair will have to offer as this is one of the crucial events that will sell travel packages for the year-end holidays.
Travelers will pre-plan their holidays and vacations to places such as Europe, Australia, America and East Asia like Korea and Japan. another plus point in traveling at the end of the year is the winter season in most of the regions.
Again, Malaysia in the tropical zone where many never experience the winter season.
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| International travel packages at Hall 1 |
International Travel Packages at Matta Fair September
One of the very popular ones is the Japan National Tourism Board or JNTO who is always very aggressive in promoting Japan to Malaysians.
Others include the many railway companies that provide access throughout Japan. The JNTO only offers these vendors to provide information and not sell Japan Travel Packages at the Matta Fair.
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| Japan National Tourism Board or JNTO at Matta Fair |
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| Even shopping district Shibuya was at Matta |
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| Tokyo Metro with staff all dressed up |
Anyone wanting to buy Japan Travel Packages is required to visit the Malaysian Travel Agents in Hall 1 of the Matta Fair.
Based on the first day of the Matta Fair March 2015, I could not help but notice that the Japan Tourism Board was, in fact, the busiest section of the international hall here.
One of the main reasons is that Japan is very open to Muslim travelers to Japan and has upgraded many places with halal facilities in many Japanese cities.
There are even guides on halal food and mosques around Japan which makes this country one of the most desirable destinations for Muslim travelers.
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| Muslim Tours at Matta Fair |
What caught my attention is that some of the tourism boards bring along airport and transport boards from their respective countries to enhance the visitor experience in getting complete information.
Popular tourism boards to visit are Indonesia Tourism, Taiwan Tourism, and Korea Tourism as they seem to be the most active in engagement with the consumers at the fair.
Other tourism boards seem to be conservative and only provide information via brochures or speaking to the staff there. Let us hope that this will change soon.
Visitors to the Matta Fair September 2015 will most likely have to enter the fair via hall 4 which is one floor higher than the usual hall 3 entrance.
Here, you will also find all the state tourism booths giving out information on each individual state. In Matta March 2015, popular tourism booths included Sabah Tourism Board, Sarawak Tourism Board and Selangor Tourism where activities were conducted apart from information.
New player Melaka Tourism was seen with a creative booth offering a variety of things to see and do around Melaka.
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| Tourism Selangor celebrates the Visit Selangor Year 2015 or VSY2015 |
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| The crowd at Hall 4, the Malaysian hall at Matta Fair |
Walking around the Malaysia Hall will easily keep you busy for about 2-3 hours if you are seeking a local Malaysia travel package from the many travel agents here.
Each offers all kinds of holiday experience ranging from Eco-tourism, Agrotourism, Luxury Packages around Malaysia, Budget Packages, Diving Packages, Homestay Experiences and more.
The Sabah Tourism booth was seen to be offering very different and unique tours especially for the newly launched Best of Borneo Holiday Packages which was launched at Matta Fair March 2015.
A ‘Sabah Cooking Tour’, a ‘Mystical Land Below the Wind Tour’ and a photography package called ‘A Journey Thru My Lens Tour’.
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| Sabah Tourism Board booths at Matta Fair 2015 |
This simply goes to show that Sabah Tourism and Tourism Malaysia Sabah has been very creative to come out with unique and special packages to attract tourists here.
After all these years, many travel agents always prefer to play safe and offer the same old standard tours where prices keep dropping but for the general tourist, they want something new and exciting.
I can only hope that others see this and possibly do something different for the next Matta Fair in September.
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| Angry Birds Park Booth |
Theme Park Packages at Matta Fair
These theme park promotion tickets and packages are also only available during the Matta Fair and you will see players like Legoland Malaysia, Hello Kitty Town, Tambun Lost World, KL Bird Park, Bukit Gambang Water Park and even new player Angry Birds Theme Park in Johor booths aggressively promoting at the travel fair.
One of the new theme parks to look out for in 2016 is the all-new 20th Century Fox Theme Park in Genting which is slated to open mid to late 2016.
Apart from that, there are many other interesting ones like the Eco-friendly Escape Theme Park in Penang and a number of others which are also scheduled to open in 2016.
Most of the time, you can simply make a booking in advance with them. Some of the hotels and resorts, especially those near theme parks or attractions may also offer alternative tours in their packages so it is best to check with them.
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| Costa Cruise at Matta Fair 2015 |
Cruise companies like Star Cruises and Costas Cruise are seen actively promoting the local Malaysia Cruise Packages where you can choose many departures from Singapore, Port Klang or even Penang.
Usually, the cruise packages come in 2-5 day trips which include full board and have special offers when you buy 2 or more persons per package.
However, if you are not a sea person, then you should look for other types of packages that suit your travels.
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| Royal Caribbean Booth at Matta |
I have already highlighted a number of tours and travels in this article and as a travel agent or tourism business, you can easily piggyback and ride on my article to promote your package by simply linking it to your website. See how simple it is?
Not enough? Why don’t you try doing a Google, Yahoo or Bing search for the word ‘Matta Fair 2015 Promotion Packages’ and see the search results on page one?
This is just to show you the power of digital and social media versus conventional media.
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| Travel booths at the international hall |
Matta Fair September 2015
Booths: Over 1000 booths participating
The recent Matta Fair 2015 in March was seen promoting heavily on domestic tourism in Malaysia apart from Malaysia Airlines is the official airline for the travel fair.
Any travel agents in Malaysia who would like to be featured here in this article or in other Matta Fair Promotion Packages for Sept 2015, you are welcome to contact me anytime.
This offer also goes out to airlines, tourism boards, hotels, and resorts who plan to participate in the Matta Fair in September 2015.
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