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CEO’s Review Of Operations<br />

assets to meet these challenges. Special focus<br />

will also be given to loans with the right<br />

portfolio mix with no capping of interest rates.<br />

<strong>BERJAYA</strong><br />

LANGKAWI<br />

BEACH & SPA<br />

RESORT,<br />

LANGKAWI<br />

ISLAND.<br />

occupancies of our Malaysian hotels and resorts.<br />

With strategic locations in Pulau Pinang,<br />

Langkawi, Kuala Lumpur, Redang, Tioman<br />

and Kota Kinabalu, <strong>Berjaya</strong> Hotels and Resorts<br />

is well positioned to benefit from the estimated<br />

seven million tourist arrivals into Malaysia<br />

annually on top of more domestic travelling by<br />

the locals as the economic situation has<br />

drastically reduced spending power abroad.<br />

Our overseas hotels and resorts in Seychelles,<br />

Mauritius, Fiji and Sri Lanka have however<br />

continued to fare well as rising occupancies and<br />

average room rates have not shown any signs of<br />

peaking yet.<br />

VACATION TIME-SHARE, HOTELS, RESORTS AND<br />

RECREATION DEVELOPMENT<br />

The tourism industry in Malaysia has faced a<br />

major setback since the third quarter of last<br />

year when the region was hit by the currency<br />

and economic turmoil. The environmental haze<br />

problem arising from Indonesia as a result of<br />

the El Nino effect at the end of last year had<br />

affected the industry and deterred foreign<br />

tourists from visiting the country. This had<br />

caused a downward trend in our hotel rooms<br />

occupancy mainly attributed to major<br />

cancellation of room bookings by foreign<br />

tourists. During the current economic<br />

downturn, Malaysian tourism will also have to<br />

contend with major tourist destinations like<br />

Thailand, Hong Kong and Singapore as<br />

destinations compete with each other for the<br />

foreign tourist dollar against the backdrop of<br />

depreciated regional currencies. The<br />

government and the private sector had<br />

combined forces to promote tourism more<br />

aggressively in order to be more competitive to<br />

attract foreign tourists to the country. <strong>Berjaya</strong><br />

Hotels and Resorts had immediately restrategized<br />

and implemented innovative<br />

packages together with various marketing and<br />

promotional programmes and managed to<br />

mitigate the downward pressure on the<br />

In keeping with its reputation as one of the<br />

premier Malaysian-based owner-operated<br />

chains, <strong>Berjaya</strong> Hotels & Resorts continued to<br />

make inroads in the international arena to<br />

achieve significant market presence and market<br />

penetration through numerous marketing and<br />

promotion initiatives. <strong>Berjaya</strong> Hotels and<br />

Resorts expects to improve their performance<br />

through continuous marketing initiatives not<br />

only in existing and traditional markets, but<br />

also in new markets and by identifying new<br />

market trends. Our affiliation with Best<br />

Western International, the world’s largest<br />

independent hotel chain, enables our chain to<br />

reap the branding benefits associated with a<br />

world-renowned brand.<br />

<strong>BERJAYA</strong> BEAU<br />

VALLON BAY<br />

BEACH RESORT<br />

& CASINO,<br />

SEYCHELLES.

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