17 sepember 2009 02:00

Tourism Ministry Launches Fabulous Food 1Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - The Tourism Ministry Wednesday launched the Fabulous Food 1 Malaysia, a tourism product to promote Malaysia as a food destination within the country and worldwide.

Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen said Fabulous Food 1Malaysia fest would be held from October to December and would become an annual programme.

"The programme will be divided into three sections which are October for the Malaysian International Gourmet Festival (MIGF), November; the shopping malls food of Malaysia and December; the Malaysian street food festival," she told reporters after launching the programme.

She said the product was important, first, to tell the world of what type of food Malaysia offered and second, to develop the culinary industry in the country.

Ng said this year the shopping complexes food event in November would only be held in Kuala Lumpur because the ministry needed more time to seek suitable malls throughout the country to participate in the event.

On another note, Dr Ng announced that tourist arrivals to Malaysia for August recorded an increase of 10.4 per cent as compared to the same month last year.

"Malaysia recorded a total of 2,030,337 tourists arrivals for the month of August 2009. It represented an increase of 10.4 per cent from 1,839,235 tourist arrival for the same month in 2008," she said.

Source: http://www.bernama.com
Photo: http://www.malaysia-hotels.net

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