The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has announced the scheduled reopening of 127 national parks across Thailand from 1 July, following the temporary closure from 25 March as part of the nationwide effort to contain the spread of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). From 1 July, a total of 64 national parks will be…
Positive momentum moving into second-half 2020 SEPANG, 24 JUNE 2020 – AirAsia registered its highest post-hibernation sale day yesterday, with a record-breaking 41,000 seats sold in a single day across AirAsia Group, signifying a strong rebound in demand for air travel. AirAsia’s website is experiencing traffic growth of 170%. Some of the most popular routes…
KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Tourist Association (STA) has giving out stimulus vouchers worth RM300 each to all its members to help jump-start the tourism revival during the recovery movement control order. Its chairman, Tonny Chew said the vouchers totaling over RM13,000 will be spent on the tourism services, activities, entrance fees, products, among others operated…
KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Association of Tour and Travel Agents (SATTA) hopes all banks will extend the COVID-19 loan repayment moratorium period to further three to six months after it ends in September. Its chairman, Dato’ Seri Winston Liaw (pix) said the extension was needed because September will be a critical month for business owners…
KOTA KINABALU: The Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (Sabah Chapter) warned that many tour operators could face winding up before end of the year because the federal government COVID-19 wage subsidy programme have not directly assisted them. Its chairman, Lawrence Chin (pix) pointed out most of the tour owners has zero revenue since…
SEPANG, 16 June 2020 – AirAsia continues its efforts to revive the domestic tourism industry by partnering directly with local hotels to offer hassle-free, best price guaranteed deals with bigger savings on SNAP, its flight + hotel combo booking platform. Just SNAP, fly and stay from as low as RM139* from Kuala Lumpur to Penang…
SEPANG, 13 June 2020 – AirAsia is extending the sale of its Unlimited Pass Cuti-Cuti Malaysia for an additional two days, to 15 June 2020 (2359h GMT+8), in response to the overwhelming demand. Priced at RM399, the AirAsia Unlimited Pass Cuti-Cuti Malaysia enables pass holders to redeem unlimited flights within Malaysia across 16 destinations for…
KOTA KINABALU: The tourism industry in Sabah received a boost today as the state government has lifted the requirement for Malaysian citizens to undergo a Covid-19 swab test before entering the state. Now Sabahans returning to the state and everyone from Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak and Labuan would only be required to fill in a health…
SEPANG, 10 June 2020 – Following the announcement that domestic travel in Malaysia will resume today, AirAsia will launch an Unlimited Pass to stimulate and revitalise Malaysia’s domestic tourism in support of the Government’s effort. The AirAsia Unlimited Pass Cuti-Cuti Malaysia, priced at RM399 nett, is available to all Malaysia-based AirAsia BIG Members to purchase…
The Palace Hotel is excited to welcome its guests back after the government easing the people movement amid the global Covid-19 pandemic. Now we are entering the recovery movement control order (MCO) starting from June 10 and finishes in August 31, 2020 after the end of the conditional MCO from May 12 to June 9,…