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7 hours ago, JuliusWong said:

Too many old folks around, and all are bodoh sombong. Coming January, there will be a big bomb. Insider news. All the best MH.

Who are they? Any names? Curious to know.

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10 hours ago, JuliusWong said:

Too many old folks around, and all are bodoh sombong. Coming January, there will be a big bomb. Insider news. All the best MH.

What news?Can you leakage?

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Switch of Chairman and a few board of directors expected as the gov has changed. The management reorganization though this has already been in play since late 2021 and is already in progress as what the article above describes.

However am not sure if this move would get rid of the few surviving Little Napoleon Chiefs. They've occasionally been called out anonymously by employees on almost every townhall meetings for disrupting many aspect of management. It also resulted in valuable staffs resigning and moving to airasia and malindo.

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What's going on with MH's HND flights? Seems like it has been zeroed out (NRT flights are still sold on MH 70/71). More importantly, (tentative?) HND schedule has been pushed back back by a few hours. New (not for sale yet) HND schedule:

1705KUL - 0130+1HND MH36

0255HND - 0845KUL MH37

Are they trying to make HND a failure? Seems like there won't be any public transportation available at those hours other than cost prohibitive taxis. Or are they waiting for a turnaround for the 359s (which still doesn't make sense if they are only service MH 1-4/88/89). MH37 arrival into KUL also seems to miss majority of MH's 0900 departure bank.

 

On 12/18/2022 at 2:53 PM, jahur said:

Even our food is not widely known compared to viet, Thai and Indon and is often mistaken as Singaporean. Our airlines price have gone up is just a poor attempt of inflation cover without solving the actual problems being yield. Its all volume sales now. 

To be fair, we do not have a lot of emigrants other than a handful of countries compared to China, Vietnam, and Thailand. Our emigrants are usually white collar professionals (and some fruit pickers) but not so much restaurateur. 

On 12/24/2022 at 7:09 PM, jahur said:

Mh actually has many good plans but majority of it do not go through purely due to budget and board which the parent company does not want to provide any more extras and worse was instructed by Ministry Of Finance to stop pumping anything for investment. Public perception is one of the major issue. It always ends up going for short term cost gains with lower capital required or any discount/foc trade offs.

It's easy to spend few billions on fuel subsidy, MRT, building a new skyscraper etc. because these are tangible and can be seen by voters. A premium airline? Nah. MH with good network? Nah. They rather fly with ME3/TK to Europe/US. They don't see other benefits that brings to the country when we have a well run airline and and airport that will connect the world. I guess most are happy that AK/Z9 is flying KUL-KBR/LGK.

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4 hours ago, Craig said:

What's going on with MH's HND flights? Seems like it has been zeroed out (NRT flights are still sold on MH 70/71). More importantly, (tentative?) HND schedule has been pushed back back by a few hours. New (not for sale yet) HND schedule:

1705KUL - 0130+1HND MH36

0255HND - 0845KUL MH37

Are they trying to make HND a failure? Seems like there won't be any public transportation available at those hours other than cost prohibitive taxis. Or are they waiting for a turnaround for the 359s (which still doesn't make sense if they are only service MH 1-4/88/89). MH37 arrival into KUL also seems to miss majority of MH's 0900 departure bank.

Perhaps this has something to do with the Japanese side? IIRC, Malaysia only has seven non-daytime slots allocated to them by the Japanese. Are the MH slots additional slots? Perhaps, they can only get the slots after midnight. If they are sharing slots with D7, then MH is being unprofessional - last monorail leaves HND before midnight and if you miss that, it will mean alternative means of transport or a night at the Toyoko Inn nearby!

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9 hours ago, Craig said:

 

It's easy to spend few billions on fuel subsidy, MRT, building a new skyscraper etc. because these are tangible and can be seen by voters. A premium airline? Nah. MH with good network? Nah. They rather fly with ME3/TK to Europe/US. They don't see other benefits that brings to the country when we have a well run airline and and airport that will connect the world. I guess most are happy that AK/Z9 is flying KUL-KBR/LGK.

Current gov primary task is to sort people's livelihood and cost of living as a priority with recession on the way. So many of the public do not bother. Our gov has a very different approach than our neighbours who would still commit to planned asset renewal asap. 

Meanwhile today we have effectively retired 
1. Condor 4x4... x316 units
2. Sibmas 6x6... x186 units
                =Total... x502 units worth of armored vehicles due to age without replacement.

1/4 of them were originally stationed in Lok Kawi meant to safeguard east coast Sabah except without any airlift capability thanks to us being downsized to just 12x medium lift helicopters(Puma) and majority of them being based in Semenanjung. Meanwhile tensions in South China Sea with the CCG coastguard sighted just today being just 86km from Miri's shore and Philippines Navy actively redesignating Sabah as North Borneo out in the open.

None of this are being tackled except for diplomacy talk. You don't garner diplomacy without a strong consistent defence as people would just take advantage. Sincerely doubt they want to effectively tackle MH as well with all of this brewing. The "kita semua kena ikat perut" will be in play while our neighbours do not care. 

Meanwhile Thai has signed additional leases of 4x a350-9 with the first aircraft arriving in march 2023(very quick). 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2464239/thai-plans-more-europe-japan-flights

Garuda got a bailout now seeking to resume of the aircraft orders and are looking for b777 replacements

https://airwaysmag.com/garuda-secures-government-bailout/

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1 hour ago, jahur said:

Meanwhile Thai has signed additional leases of 4x a350-9 with the first aircraft arriving in march 2023(very quick). 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2464239/thai-plans-more-europe-japan-flights

Garuda got a bailout now seeking to resume of the aircraft orders and are looking for b777 replacements

https://airwaysmag.com/garuda-secures-government-bailout/

Not surprised Thai Airways managed to secure additional capacity so fast. Airbus via various lessors have been actively marketing HNA Group A350s, ITA Airways took big chunk of it, some went back to Brazil's Azul.

Only nine (seven if you take out Azul airframes) remaining airframes looking for new owners, some maybe locked in bankruptcy proceedings. TG most probably is taking all those in storage in Lourdes.

  1. MSN098 Storage in Beijing, AerCap
  2. MSN112 Storage in Beijing, AerCap
  3. MSN226 Storage in Spain, Avolon, (Azul ntu, went to Hainan Airlines, seating 30J 309Y= 339), not sure if Azul will take them back
  4. MSN235 Storage in Lourdes,  ALAFCO
  5. MSN245 Storage in Spain, Avolon, (same fate as MSN226), 
  6. MSN246 Storage in Lourdes, JIC Leasing
  7. MSN251 Storage in Lourdes, ??
  8. MSN256 Storage in Alice Springs, ALAFCO
  9. MSN260 Storage in Lourdes, ??

TG's first additional A350-941 arrived before Christmas recently at Shannon for repainting. MSN 355, previously Hainan Airlines B-30DP, belongs to Avolon. Delivered on December 2019, but returned to lessor two weeks after, never enter service. Practically a brand new aircraft. It has the same Stelia Aerospace’s Solstys J class as most of Thai's current fleet has, a perfect fit. HU's A359 sits 33J 301Y= 334, TG's own 32J 289Y= 321. Some spotters managed to catch her in SNN.

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OE-IBV A350-941 Hainan Airlines by Dave Corry, on Flickr

TG retired huge amount of its fleet during COVID19: 5 B772A, 6 B773, 10 B744, 12 A330 and 6 A380. 39 widebodies. They will need all the new aircraft as soon as possible to cover for the capacity loss. A380 return has been put on backburner as its revival will be very expensive. USD18-20mill per aircraft, quoted by Airbus to them. They can always take QR A35K ntu if they can work out a deal with Airbus, pretty sure Airbus will be happy to get them off their hands.

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6 hours ago, flee said:

Perhaps this has something to do with the Japanese side? IIRC, Malaysia only has seven non-daytime slots allocated to them by the Japanese. Are the MH slots additional slots? Perhaps, they can only get the slots after midnight. If they are sharing slots with D7, then MH is being unprofessional - last monorail leaves HND before midnight and if you miss that, it will mean alternative means of transport or a night at the Toyoko Inn nearby!

IIRC, "daytime slots" at HND are 06:00-21:59 for arrival and 06:00-22:59 for departure. MH already has the current schedule set up since April/August this year so I'd be very surprised they can't get the same slot for next summer. It's not exactly a busy time at HND past midnight for arrivals but who knows why they ended up with this schedule. They could even do what QF or VA did before they received their daytime slot. Arrive just before 06:00 and leave at midnight but that means MH will have a plane sitting on the ground for 18 hours.

2 hours ago, jahur said:

Current gov primary task is to sort people's livelihood and cost of living as a priority with recession on the way. So many of the public do not bother. Our gov has a very different approach than our neighbours who would still commit to planned asset renewal asap. 

Meanwhile today we have effectively retired 
1. Condor 4x4... x316 units
2. Sibmas 6x6... x186 units
                =Total... x502 units worth of armored vehicles due to age without replacement.

1/4 of them were originally stationed in Lok Kawi meant to safeguard east coast Sabah except without any airlift capability thanks to us being downsized to just 12x medium lift helicopters(Puma) and majority of them being based in Semenanjung. Meanwhile tensions in South China Sea with the CCG coastguard sighted just today being just 86km from Miri's shore and Philippines Navy actively redesignating Sabah as North Borneo out in the open.

None of this are being tackled except for diplomacy talk. You don't garner diplomacy without a strong consistent defence as people would just take advantage. Sincerely doubt they want to effectively tackle MH as well with all of this brewing. The "kita semua kena ikat perut" will be in play while our neighbours do not care. 

Meanwhile Thai has signed additional leases of 4x a350-9 with the first aircraft arriving in march 2023(very quick). 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2464239/thai-plans-more-europe-japan-flights

Garuda got a bailout now seeking to resume of the aircraft orders and are looking for b777 replacements

https://airwaysmag.com/garuda-secures-government-bailout/

Well yes - defense is another area which funds are severely lacking. But again, these aren't tangible to the normal Malaysian until the next incursion. I remember reading about the LCS fiasco where the Navy recommended a certain type of ship from a different manufacturer but we got a totally different ship instead.

Again, still amazed at TG's bailouts. But then again, tourism contributes about 18-20% of their GDP whilst I think it's 10-12% for us. Don't they have 359s sitting on the ground at BKK? BKK is like an aircraft storage yard for TG (at least as of June). The whole satellite terminal is parked with TG planes and along the taxiways as well where as it's not so obvious at KUL (I still see AK/D7 parked at the old LCC / Satellite concourse and a few OD/MH plane parked near the main concourse).

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47 minutes ago, Craig said:

Again, still amazed at TG's bailouts. But then again, tourism contributes about 18-20% of their GDP whilst I think it's 10-12% for us. Don't they have 359s sitting on the ground at BKK? BKK is like an aircraft storage yard for TG (at least as of June). The whole satellite terminal is parked with TG planes and along the taxiways as well where as it's not so obvious at KUL (I still see AK/D7 parked at the old LCC / Satellite concourse and a few OD/MH plane parked near the main concourse).

Yea our Tourism GDP collection is rather low though i believe it can be improved if our gov actually puts effort in attracting a wider market. Simple thing like marketing is not well thought off for decades.


What i dug up from someone working in TG

In 2022 Tg was down to 37 widebody aircrafts of 12 a350, 17 b77w, 6 b788, 2 b789. Late 2022 they reactivated a few subfleet of b772 and a333.

For 2023 Post pandemic they will reactivate 6 a333 and 6 b772 as aforementioned and acquire 4-6 additional a359 due to network requirement and also may plan to reactivate 4 a380 temporary(not sure if this will succeed management is not keen due to many of its a380 pilots no longer having valid rating the simulator is also offloaded). 

Next plans are the discussion with Boeing for 20 b787-9 which will be delivered in 2025. These aircraft will act as a surplus and also allow effective retirement of all b772 a333 by then.  Thai plans to operate 60++ aircrafts by 2025. Target market will be South Asia, Central asia, Europe and Japan though there are info that they will reduce their focus on Australia.

 

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11 hours ago, jahur said:

Yea our Tourism GDP collection is rather low though i believe it can be improved if our gov actually puts effort in attracting a wider market. Simple thing like marketing is not well thought off for decades.

What i dug up from someone working in TG

In 2022 TG was down to 37 widebody aircrafts of 12 a350, 17 b77w, 6 b788, 2 b789. Late 2022 they reactivated a few subfleet of b772 and a333.

For 2023 Post pandemic they will reactivate 6 a333 and 6 b772 as aforementioned and acquire 4-6 additional a359 due to network requirement and also may plan to reactivate 4 a380 temporary(not sure if this will succeed management is not keen due to many of its a380 pilots no longer having valid rating the simulator is also offloaded). 

Next plans are the discussion with Boeing for 20 b787-9 which will be delivered in 2025. These aircraft will act as a surplus and also allow effective retirement of all b772 a333 by then.  Thai plans to operate 60++ aircrafts by 2025. Target market will be South Asia, Central asia, Europe and Japan though there are info that they will reduce their focus on Australia.

Without a doubt, Thailand is a much more fun place to be, they are so much better in marketing their culture, food and tradition. Not forgetting those modern ones ICONSIAM, Pratunam Mall, rave parties etc. Malaysia is just meh shopping centres....makanan also cut throat prices.....

The A380 will not be coming back due to cost prohibition unfortunately. Four have been advertised for sell but no taker, the other two owned airframes are parked openly without protective cover for past three years. Only three A333 out of six planned returned to service, the rest 12 have been sold or returned, some have been picked up for cargo conversion (really crazy as TG has some of the youngest A333 out there). The six B772ER have returned as planned.

The last update was they will only get four additional A359s, initially two, things may change though as April approaches due to Songkran. Good to see B787 picking up more order. TG fleet could use some expansion to maximise the advantage. 

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On 1/3/2023 at 11:15 PM, jahur said:

Yea our Tourism GDP collection is rather low though i believe it can be improved if our gov actually puts effort in attracting a wider market. Simple thing like marketing is not well thought off for decades.


What i dug up from someone working in TG

In 2022 Tg was down to 37 widebody aircrafts of 12 a350, 17 b77w, 6 b788, 2 b789. Late 2022 they reactivated a few subfleet of b772 and a333.

For 2023 Post pandemic they will reactivate 6 a333 and 6 b772 as aforementioned and acquire 4-6 additional a359 due to network requirement and also may plan to reactivate 4 a380 temporary(not sure if this will succeed management is not keen due to many of its a380 pilots no longer having valid rating the simulator is also offloaded). 

Next plans are the discussion with Boeing for 20 b787-9 which will be delivered in 2025. These aircraft will act as a surplus and also allow effective retirement of all b772 a333 by then.  Thai plans to operate 60++ aircrafts by 2025. Target market will be South Asia, Central asia, Europe and Japan though there are info that they will reduce their focus on Australia.

 

Our tourism campaign is pretty much "Visit Malaysia Year xxxx" and then slap an orangutan or an indigenous people's face on a double decker bus in London and then pat yourself on the back for a job well done. But when you hear tourists coming to Malaysia, they are usually often surprised with what Malaysia has to offer and often call it as an underrated destination. They do not know what to expect (because our marketing sucks) and are usually fondly surprised by our food, culture, and nature.

I often forget that TG doesn't have any narrow body. So they are indeed stretching their fleet and they are sacrificing frequencies over higher capacity plane for their regional flights (e.g. KUL/SGN with 2 daily flights). 

Never knew Australia is a strong market for TG/Thailand so I am not surprised that they are reducing their focus on Australia.

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On 11/3/2022 at 9:08 AM, JuliusWong said:

Malaysia Airlines launches Kuala Lumpur-Yogyakarta twice-weekly direct flights

https://www.malaymail.com/news/money/2022/11/02/malaysia-airlines-launches-kuala-lumpur-yogyakarta-twice-weekly-direct-flights/37055

JAKARTA, Nov 2 — Malaysia Airlines has launched a new twice-weekly direct flight between Kuala Lumpur (KUL) and Yogyakarta, Indonesia on Wednesday and Sunday, effective today.

Flight MH857 departs KUL to Yogyakarta at 5.40pm and flight MH856 departs Yogyakarta to KUL at 8.30pm, will be operated by 160-seater B737-800 aircraft, the airline said in a statement.

The new service marks its network expansion strategy, bringing the existing network within Indonesia to six cities, including Jakarta, Denpasar, Surabaya, Medan and Pekanbaru.

Hope this time the route will last longer. This is MH's third attempt for Yogyakarta. First attempt was to replace GA between February 2008 until August 2011, x257 with B737-400. Then it resumed from June 2018 with 4 weekly 737-800 service, and it was very shortlived, suspended few months later. 
MH857 KUL0945 – 1120JOG 738 x456
MH856 JOG1220 – 1555KUL 738 x456

MALAYSIA AIRLINES RESUMES YOGYAKARTA SERVICE FROM MARCH 2023

Malaysia Airlines in Northern summer 2023 season plans to resume Kuala Lumpur – Yogyakarta service, last served until October 2018. From 26MAR23, the oneWorld member schedules 2 weekly flights with Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
 
MH857 KUL1735 – 1930YIA 738 37
MH856 YIA2030 – 0020+1KUL 738 37

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For sure our marketing is bad. It got even worse when they started shutting down tourist offices in major European/US cities, then MH pulled out of US/EU completely; then the government (very shortsightedly! concentrated fully only on the Chinese tourists, and this was followed by our tourism agencies not jumping on the social media bandwagon!

for something that is our 3rd largest income earner, I’m surprised the total apathy by the government. They needs to pull their finger out and get working on this soon or we will be even further behind! Post pandemic travel is increasing and we are still waaaay behind in attracting tourists who are going to elsewhere!

 

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Everyone in mab knows no matter how much losses mab incurred, gomen will bail it out. The only possibility to turn around mab is to replace entire bod and top 3 level of management, contract a management team from me3. similarly for mahb.

 

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13 hours ago, Zamir said:

MALAYSIA AIRLINES RESUMES YOGYAKARTA SERVICE FROM MARCH 2023

Malaysia Airlines in Northern summer 2023 season plans to resume Kuala Lumpur – Yogyakarta service, last served until October 2018. From 26MAR23, the oneWorld member schedules 2 weekly flights with Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
 
MH857 KUL1735 – 1930YIA 738 37
MH856 YIA2030 – 0020+1KUL 738 37

This must be their third or so "resumption" for YIA. Or am I thinking of another destination?

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15 hours ago, Izanee said:

For sure our marketing is bad. It got even worse when they started shutting down tourist offices in major European/US cities, then MH pulled out of US/EU completely; then the government (very shortsightedly! concentrated fully only on the Chinese tourists, and this was followed by our tourism agencies not jumping on the social media bandwagon!

Social media? Try website 🤣 They don't even have a functional website.

Malaysia seems to only know how to attract one type of visitor at the expense of others instead of attracting multiple types of visitors. e.g. you don't have to ban alcohol (or at least talk about it publicly) in Langkawi when you want to attract Muslim tourists. Alcohol didn't stop Muslims from visiting London, Bangkok, Tokyo etc. Is attracting Chinese and European/Middle Eastern visitors at the same time a tough act to balance? Let's not even go that far - closer to home - how about attracting ANZ visitors?

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1 hour ago, Craig said:

Social media? Try website 🤣 They don't even have a functional website.

Malaysia seems to only know how to attract one type of visitor at the expense of others instead of attracting multiple types of visitors. e.g. you don't have to ban alcohol (or at least talk about it publicly) in Langkawi when you want to attract Muslim tourists. Alcohol didn't stop Muslims from visiting London, Bangkok, Tokyo etc. Is attracting Chinese and European/Middle Eastern visitors at the same time a tough act to balance? Let's not even go that far - closer to home - how about attracting ANZ visitors?

For Sabah Tourism main issues lies on budget. Gov and state allocate very limited sums. So you pick the least effort required that will bring in the most volume. Hence for Sabah it was always going to fight for China lol. Recently in 2022 there were attempts to relocate some of the marketing to Middle East and certain parts of Europe but that's purely because most of the funds meant for China marketing were not used. If i recall correctly Sabah Tourism needs an increase annual budget of nearly 500% to accommodate former markets like Australia and Japan.  Funds meant for TV spots, Youtube ads, Social Media post, Sponsoring foreign tourist to come in and market.

A friend in South Korea posted an image on the tv screen in his hotel room of a Korean made ad promoting Kota Kinabalu. So far KK has been promoted as the budget family friendly alternative of Phuket/Bali by local word of mouth in South Korea so it got a bit viral. But no mention of Sepilok, Semporna or other places in Sabah. All in all very limited effort required by sabah tourism. 

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7 hours ago, jahur said:

For Sabah Tourism main issues lies on budget. Gov and state allocate very limited sums. So you pick the least effort required that will bring in the most volume. Hence for Sabah it was always going to fight for China lol. Recently in 2022 there were attempts to relocate some of the marketing to Middle East and certain parts of Europe but that's purely because most of the funds meant for China marketing were not used. If i recall correctly Sabah Tourism needs an increase annual budget of nearly 500% to accommodate former markets like Australia and Japan.  Funds meant for TV spots, Youtube ads, Social Media post, Sponsoring foreign tourist to come in and market.

A friend in South Korea posted an image on the tv screen in his hotel room of a Korean made ad promoting Kota Kinabalu. So far KK has been promoted as the budget family friendly alternative of Phuket/Bali by local word of mouth in South Korea so it got a bit viral. But no mention of Sepilok, Semporna or other places in Sabah. All in all very limited effort required by sabah tourism. 

As in Sabah case, more or less I can see the pattern here, western/European tourists visit Sandakan for its nature, Chinese and West Malaysian tourists visit Semporna for its islands, and Koreans seems to hardly ever venture anywhere else outside of KK😄

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1 hour ago, Alif A. F. said:

As in Sabah case, more or less I can see the pattern here, western/European tourists visit Sandakan for its nature, Chinese and West Malaysian tourists visit Semporna for its islands, and Koreans seems to hardly ever venture anywhere else outside of KK😄

And they shipped kimchi from South Korea, cause the local made kimchi was awful for them. LOL!! Where are the rich US, Briton and Russians!? (joking here)

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I was having conversation with a total stranger (a Japanese) in an onsen in Japan two days ago. Using his limited English, he seems like he knows very little about Malaysia. He was very surprised to learn I was originally from Malaysia as he thought Malaysia is a Muslim country. Interestingly the first city name came out from his mouth was Kota Kinabalu !

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23 hours ago, jahur said:

For Sabah Tourism main issues lies on budget. Gov and state allocate very limited sums. So you pick the least effort required that will bring in the most volume. Hence for Sabah it was always going to fight for China lol. Recently in 2022 there were attempts to relocate some of the marketing to Middle East and certain parts of Europe but that's purely because most of the funds meant for China marketing were not used. If i recall correctly Sabah Tourism needs an increase annual budget of nearly 500% to accommodate former markets like Australia and Japan.  Funds meant for TV spots, Youtube ads, Social Media post, Sponsoring foreign tourist to come in and market.

A friend in South Korea posted an image on the tv screen in his hotel room of a Korean made ad promoting Kota Kinabalu. So far KK has been promoted as the budget family friendly alternative of Phuket/Bali by local word of mouth in South Korea so it got a bit viral. But no mention of Sepilok, Semporna or other places in Sabah. All in all very limited effort required by sabah tourism. 

I think there are very competent local marketing agencies here in Malaysia. It's just odd that both MH and Tourism Malaysia/Sabah can't handle social media marketing at all. They have never changed the orangutan/proboscis monkey picture since 1990s? It's still grainy and very 90s color.

And IIRC, KK had more weekly flights to Korea than KL pre-Covid. But they come in groups with everything in Korean (tour guide, restaurants etc.)

15 hours ago, Alif A. F. said:

As in Sabah case, more or less I can see the pattern here, western/European tourists visit Sandakan for its nature, Chinese and West Malaysian tourists visit Semporna for its islands, and Koreans seems to hardly ever venture anywhere else outside of KK😄

Western/European tourists visit the islands too plus Sandakan/Kinabatangan. Malaysians (especially urbanites) aren't really that much into seeing animals in the wild.They very much prefer a Singapore Zoo experience. 

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1 hour ago, Craig said:

I think there are very competent local marketing agencies here in Malaysia. It's just odd that both MH and Tourism Malaysia/Sabah can't handle social media marketing at all. They have never changed the orangutan/proboscis monkey picture since 1990s? It's still grainy and very 90s color.

And IIRC, KK had more weekly flights to Korea than KL pre-Covid. But they come in groups with everything in Korean (tour guide, restaurants etc.)

Western/European tourists visit the islands too plus Sandakan/Kinabatangan. Malaysians (especially urbanites) aren't really that much into seeing animals in the wild.They very much prefer a Singapore Zoo experience. 

You'd be shock that the tourism agency actually looked for amateur photographers and paid them below market value or 0 pay to do some coverage for Lok Kawi wildlife park and Sepilok. That's how broke the budget is. How i know well my ex schoolmates were complaining about them not getting any pay to do photography on behalf of Sabah Tourism. Engaging proper studio also no budget hiring local amateur also no budget lol. Now how are they gonna pay for daily tv slots ads in NHK, or ESPN if they cant even pay for photography session to update the place. 

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