Originally Posted by wolf72

I work with a consultancy to the Prime Minister's department and although I do not handle this particular account, I do have informal chats from time to time especially on regional travels with the team who do work with this government office about KL and tourism.

The majority of travellers who do stop over in KL do so for a short time frame and want to head out to the islands and beach's and resorts. They are not into hiking at Bukit Kiara as an example or are interested in bird parks.

Fair enough, there are who will bring their kids to the bird park or will check into Sunway Lagoon and spend 3-5 days there with the kids before flying off somewhere else or back home because they are in KL specifically for a reason.

The other type of tourist are the ones who come specifically for local food, given how famous Malaysian cuisine is and seafood is, especially the curries and the chinese style of cooking.

But, by en-large, the lack of information or rather why the information about Malaysia is not reaching people who want to know is because they already know what they want and don't want and as long as they get to do/see what they came for, they are good and ready to leave KL and move on to the next destination.