With the huge volume of tourists that Malaysia hosts each year, the latest figure in 2007 pegged at 20 million, the country is willing to share their expertise to other neighboring countries insofar as tourism related services is concerned.
Malaysia Consul General to Davao Hon. Nik Mustafa Kamal Nik Ahmad in an interview at the Club 888 Forum of the Marco Polo Davao said projects like exchange studies would allow students to have wider exposure to the international tourism industry.
He said the Filipino trainees while in their country must work hard because the Malaysian and other tourists there love to dine and all hotels and restaurants are open 24 hours and their long exposure would make them more skilled as they would interact with tourists of different nationalities.
Malaysia is among the top 3 destinations in Asia and tourism industry workers will be exposed among others to clients in the Middle East.
"With more exposure they will have the good chance of increasing their marketability," he said.
Meanwhile he observed that there is not enough Malaysian coming to Mindanao because of their impression that the island is dangerous.
They (Malaysian) do not even know that there is a consulate base in Davao City even as he said that their government has not issued travel advisories banning their nationals to come to Mindanao.
"Issuing travel advisory is unfair and we do not want to do that to our neighbor," he said.
The other concern aired there number of people coming to Manila instead to Davao because of the lack of air linkages.
It is a good thing that Cebu Pacific had started the route and hopefully there would be more Malaysians traveling here because they love to travel and when they travel they want to go to several destinations.
He said tourists destinations here are really beautiful and has rich resources but it needs a lot of promotion.
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