Johor poised to become theme park capital


Legoland will be a vital traveller end when it opens its doorway to a public subsequent month.
JOHOR BARU: Johor is staid to turn Malaysia's "Theme Park Capital" when Asia's initial Legoland thesis play ground during Nusajaya is open to a public subsequent month.
This will signify a emergence of Iskandar Malaysia as well as Johor as a vital traveller end of a country as well as region.
Following a opening of a RM750 million Legoland, Iskandar Malaysia will embrace an additional captivate with a opening of a family thesis play ground in Puteri Harbour in November.
The dual general standard thesis parks will be vital attractions to millions of domestic as well as unfamiliar tourists formulation to revisit Iskandar Malaysia as well as Johor.
According to Iskandar Regional Development Authority (Irda) chief senior manager Ismail Ibrahim, Iskandar Malaysia could realize its outrageous potential in a tourism sector by a doing of multiform infrastructural projects.
"We hold Iskandar Malaysia will provide a undiluted traveller end for affordable leisure during rival prices in a Southeast Asian region as well as Middle East Pacific," he said.
He was vocalization during a lecture upon a Puteri Harbour family thesis play ground by Khazanah Nasional Bhd subsidiary, Themed Attractions as well as Resort (TAR) Sdn Bhd recently.
The Puteri Harbour family thesis park, located in Nusajaya as well as built during a price of RM115 million, will feature renouned existence characters such as Hello Kitty, Bob The Builder, Angelina Ballerina, Pingu as well as Thomas And Friends.
It will also house "Lat's Plac! e", Mala ysia's initial grill of a nation's prime cartoonist Mohd Nor Khalid, better well known as Lat.
Apart from a dual family thesis parks, TAR is also formulation to open dual some-more general standard thesis parks during a Desaru legal holiday resort in East Johor.
The dual parks in Desaru Ocean Splash as well as Ocean Quest will be built by TAR during a price of RM267 million as well as have been approaching to be finished as well as open to a public by mid-2014.
The opening of Legoland, Puteri Harbour, Ocean Quest as well as Ocean Splash in a near destiny in Johor, during a total price of RM1 billion will propel a Johor tourism sector to a completely new level.
In fact, tourism industry observers have labelled Johor as a "Theme Park Capital of Malaysia", following a launch of a single thesis play ground after an additional in a southern state.
Iskandar Malaysia, according to Ismail, is regularly working towards attracting some-more play ground operators to work in a special economic zone to supplement to a existent thesis parks.
"Irda is regularly upon a lookout to have some-more thesis parks in Iskandar Malaysia as well as beyond, that can support to family-type entertainment as well as education," he told reporters.
The development of thesis parks is not only cramped to Iskandar Malaysia as well as Desaru, as underneath a Mersing Laguna project valued during RM22 billion, plans have been underway for multiform some-more general thesis parks.
-Bernama
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