Tourism Australia has welcomed the announcement by leading value based carrier Air Asia X to launch future daily services between Sydney to Kuala Lumpur, as a continuum of its strategic year 2020 approach to foster more new international flights from key source destinations in Asia.Tourism Australia Managing Director Andrew McEvoy said one of the keys to which Australian tourism can best align to achieve its 2020 growth goals is to have ongoing growth in sustainable international air services, and this was being achieved.
“Malaysia is an all critical market, now representing Australia’s 7th largest and one of our fastest growing,” Mr McEvoy said.
“As seen with Air Asia X’s past introduction of new long haul flights into Australia, and now via its latest growth announcement for Sydney flying, we foresee a future positive outcome of both greater visitor numbers and new consumers visiting Australia, through this new service.
“An average Malaysian tourist in Australia now spends almost $4700 during their stay and vitally they are amongst the highest repeat visitors to our country.
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