Tourism Malaysia’s new spooky tours which ran in Penang for the duration of the Hungry Ghost month did a good job raising the goosebumps of visitors. Tourism Malaysia Penang director Sani Sham Ahmad said the tours received an overwhelming response from both domestic and foreign visitors.
He said that over 300 people booked the tours, some of which allowed visitors into two popular Penang museums after nightfall. “The spooky tours were designed for Penang. “Nowadays, tourism is becoming more specialised and focused on specific niches.
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“Therefore, we decided to capitalise on the Hungry Ghost month here to draw in tourists,” he said after the launching of a mini 1Malaysia Contemporary Art Tourism Festival 2012 carnival in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). Sani Sham added that roughly 75% of the tourists who joined the ‘scary’ tours were locals.
The six tours, which offered visits to Hungry Ghost venues as well as night tours at USM’s Tuanku Fauziah Museum and Gallery and the War Museum on Batu Maung Hill, started in mid-August.
Most tours involving Hungry Ghost sites closed on Saturday but ‘night at the museum’ tours are currently still available. Sani Sham said Tourism Malaysia would go over feedback from tour operators to decide if the spooky tours would make a return next year.
-thestar online.
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