KL ranked ninth in tourist arrivals

Source: The Star
            6 February 2015

KUALA LUMPUR: Kuala Lumpur is now ranked ninth out of 100 leading cities in the world in terms of international tourist arrivals by the Euromonitor International in its annual Top City Destinations ranking.

Kuala Lumpur Mayor Datuk Seri Ahmad Phesal Talib said the report recorded 11.2 million international tourists visited Kuala Lumpur in 2013, reflecting the importance of KL to global tourism, in terms of business and leisure.

Under the Kuala Lumpur Tourism Master Plan 2015-2025, he said, one of the key areas that must be worked on was to market Kuala Lumpur in a targeted manner and provide industry players and tourists with better access to city information.

He said this when launching Hello KL e-newsletter and #IAMKL Online Campaign here.

The e-newsletter would be a useful and effective tool in providing information on tourism updates in Kuala Lumpur and it would be a valuable resource for all parties promoting the city as a preferred tourist destination.

“We expect 15 million tourist arrivals for this year, where 10.1 million will be made up of overseas tourists, while 4.9 million are local tourists.

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