Johor to offer special tourism packages to bring in numbers

First stop: Tee (second from right) at the ferry terminal in Kukup. He was on a one-day visit to Pontian.

PONTIAN: The state government hopes to achieve its target of attracting at least five million tourists this year through various tourism programmes, including some 60 festivals planned statewide.

State Tourism, Trade and Consumerism committee chairman Datuk Tee Siew Kiong said that although most of the festivals were mostly small scale, there would be five major ones which are being promoted aggressively worldwide.