Visitation to Batam By Penang Government, Malaysia

18 June 2014 is a very special day as we had a visitation from Penang Government, Malaysia. They will be staying in Batam View Beach Resort from 18-21 June 2015. Lots of programs lining up during their Batam visit. The delegation was led by YB Danny Law Heng Kiang from Penang State Exco for Tourism Development. Among the delegations are from Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers, Penang health Association and Penang Centre of Education Tourism.

At 3.30 in the afternoon they had B2B Meeting (Business to Business) with local stakeholders in Batam, from tourism to education. The meeting was attended by Bapak Yusfa Hendri, the Head of Batam Tourism Board which gave the special welcome speech to the delegations from Penang. It was also attended by Bapak Andika (Head of ASITA Kepri), eleven properties from Nongsa Destination, travel agents such as Nusajaya Indofast and from college which is Batam Tourism Polytechnic (BTP). 

The B2B meeting ended up at 5.30 and was continued with Buka Puasa Bersama at the jetty of Kelong Restaurant.

The group’s scheduled to have Batam Tour in which they would experience some attractions of Batam, and visitation to two colleges (Batam Tourism Polytechnic and Universitas International Batam) on 19 June 2015, continued with Penang Fair in Megamall Batam Centre on 20 June 2015.

It was a reciprocal visitation as on last April Batam delegations went to Penang for tourism promotion. The visit was aimed to establish mutual relationship between two islands and to promote each other’s’ potentials amongst its society, and expected to boost business and tourism traffic in the near future.

Welcome to Batam. Experience it!