MELAKA TOURIST ARRIVALS ON TARGET TO REACH 20 MILLION IN 2019

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Melaka on course to hit 20m tourist arrivals target

BERNAMAAugust 25, 2019

 MELAKA (Aug 25): The Melaka government is confident of hitting its target of 20 million tourist arrivals for this year in conjunction with Visit Melaka Year 2019 as it has received about 18 million visitors until the third quarter.

"We still have five months to reach this target but we have already achieved a success by surpassing last year’s figure of 17 million tourist arrivals,” said State Tourism, Heritage and Culture Committee chairman Datuk Muhamad Jailani Khamis.

"We will promote tourism in Melaka more aggressively in line with the Visit Malaysia Year 2020 campaign which targets 30 million tourists next year,” he told reporters after opening the Melaka Food Festival 2019 and state-level Visit Truly Asia Malaysia 2020 at Jalan Kota, Banda Hilir here today.

RASA MELAKA - THE MUSICAL

The former Cathay cinema at Jalan Munshi Abdullah was renovated into Dewan Bangsawan some years ago.

Currently, a one hour live musical show named "Rasa Melaka-the musical" is being staged until October 2020.
Visitors who are interested to know about Melaka history should come and watch this live show.

KEE ANN FOOD STREET - NEW TOURIST ATTRACTION IN NEW CHINATOWN

Since mid May 2019, a new tourist attraction has made Kee Ann road famous worldwide.

Named as Kee Ann Food Street, it is opened to the general public and visitors on Fridays to Sundays.

On Saturday nights, there is a singing stage to liven up the food street.

Opening time is from 6.00pm to 12.00 midnight.