Travel Malaysia 2011 offers packages for Singaporeans

The two-day Travel Malaysia 2011 fair is offering comprehensive tourism packages for Singaporeans who want to explore Malaysia.

This includes exquisite million-year-old rainforests, home to amazing biodiversity of wildlife and plants species, magnificient caves and mountains, pristine beaches, idllic tropical islands and a wide choice of diving sites.

"Travel Malaysia is specially dedicated to promote Malaysia as a holiday destination and to give tourism industry players the opportunity to re-introduce their products and services, both old and new.

"They are also to take advantage of the school holiday which is just round the corner in Malaysia and Singapore," said Malaysian High Commissioner to Singapore Datuk Mohd Hussin Nayan at the launch of the travel fair here Saturday.

The highlight of the fair is the homestay programme which is increasingly popular among Singaporeans who make up 52.5 per cent of total foreign homestay participants.