MATTA Fair Melaka Begins Today

October 13th, 2006

The 3rd MATTA Fair (also literally known as travel fair) of Melaka begins today, and will be carried out for 3 days, as follows:
Date: 13 Oct – 15 Oct, 2006
Venue: 1st floor, Mahkota Parade

Though the scale of MATTA Fair in Melaka is definitely much smaller comparing to the one held in PWTC Kuala Lumpur, but it is convenient for the residents in Melaka. Moreover, the main participants are local travel agencies that Melaka people are familiar with.

Have you got ready to plan for a vacation?

Based on my personal experience, MATTA Fair doesn’t really offer significantly cheaper inbound packages, since it is already fundamentally cheap to travel within Malaysia. However, if you’re planning for an outbound vacation, MATTA Fair is a good place for some great deals, especially when you’re traveling in group.

Nowadays, with the convenience of Internet tools like online air ticket and hotel room reservation systems, travel agents are less significant in playing the role of middleman. Instead, they have to offer add-on values or attractive prices in arrangement of guided tour, especially for overseas packages. It’s becoming a norm for young travelers to make online reservations on hotel and flight, and they only require travel agent services for touring and guides.

When I traveled to Siem Reap of Cambodia last month, we did all the necessary reservations of hotel rooms and returning flights via online facilities as well, and acquired a Cambodian travel agent for guided tour and local transportation. The globalization force of Internet has made it so easy for you and me to plan for the whole trip by using online resources.

For example, as shown on the right side of this article, you can easily make room booking on Equatorial Hotel Melaka at AmazingMelaka.com. All you need is an Internet connection and a credit card. Besides, wide range of comprehensive tourism resources, contents and maps are readily available at finger tip via Internet. The connected travelers nowadays know exactly which destination and route they are interested in, before inquiring packages from travel agent.

All these evolutions resulted from globalization doesn’t mean that travel agents are ceasing from their role; but, they have to adapt with the changes to stay at the cutting edge. Since it is a known trend that travelers are spending more time and efforts to study relevant information and acquire services via online facilities, the travel agents should also stay intact by establishing their Web presence, in order to be easily reachable by foreign tourists. I remember once that I actually seen a Google AdWords advertisement unit, advertised by a tuk tuk (motorcycle taxi) driver in Cambodia. Simply impressive.

Just a case study on a tourism participant in Melaka - Purple Flowers Handicrafts, who is specializing in producing modern wooden clogs, turning the old-age footwear into a fashion. Purple Flowers Handicrafts has established a small website early this year to showcase their clogs. Though it is just a simple catalog without any shopping cart or e-commerce facilities, but still, this unique handicrafts shop has managed to received and processed some overseas orders via email messaging and SWIFT payment. The business possibilities with Internet is unconstrained. Imagine if Purple Flowers Handicrafts has an e-commerce facilities similar to Alice Florist, the possibilities of getting new orders in 24 hours a day is so feasibly bold.

Off all the hotels in Melaka, I find that Equatorial Hotel is particularly initiative in participation of online booking facilities. A lot of hotel reservation portals are featuring Equatorial Hotel Melaka. No wonder the occupancy rate in Equatorial Hotel is relatively high all time throughout the year.

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