Ammar Abd Ghapar appointed new Tourism Malaysia DG


PUTRAJAYA: Datuk Dr Ammar Abd Ghapar has been appointed as the new director-general of the Malaysian Tourism Promotion Board (Tourism Malaysia), effective April 12.

Tourism Malaysia, in a statement, said that Ammar, who was previously the senior director of Tourism Malaysia's International Promotion Division (Americas, Europe and Oceania), is replacing Datuk Zainuddin Abdul Wahab who retired on April 10.

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