Aiming to attract more tourists to Johor, the state authorities will provide 14 caravan parks for holiday makers. Soon, tourists will no longer need to go to New Zealand or Australia to go on caravan holiday because they will be able to do it in Johor.
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Mentri Besar Datuk Mohamed Khaled Nordin stated that a 0.4ha piece of land within Bio Desaru is an integrated biotech agriculture and food production hub located near Sedili.
He also said that the location of the first caravan park was made possible through the cooperation between Johor Tourism and Bio Desaru Sdn Bhd (BDSB) to make the state an agro-tourism centre by 2020.
“Several areas along the eastern side of Johor have the potential to be developed as a caravan park and become the state’s newest tourism product to attract local and international tourists. With such attractive offers available, tourists can travel in Johor using caravans. The caravan holiday concept is similar to those being done in Australia and New Zealand,” he stated.
He also added that the steps are being made to gazette tourism zones starting from Bio Desaru until Mersing and the East Coast Economic Region to complement the cooperation between the two agencies.
According to Mohamed Khaled, Bio Desaru has attracted RM1.6bil in investments since its inception in 2008.
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Mohamed Khaled said Malaysia’s agro-food industry was expected to see a growth of up to 4.7% by 2020 with an additional value of RM29.8bil.
He added that once Bio Desaru is fully completed within the next four years, it will create 4,167 employment opportunities and generate more than RM1bil for the national gross income.
The 14 caravan parks will be in these areas:
- Mersing Tanjung Peng Jia Menghai side (a Tg of Penyabong);
- Mersing Ayer Baban beach (Pantai Air Papan);
- To Mersing Tanjung Le Sea side (Pantai Tg Leman); Desaru, Kota Tinggi ecological Park
- “organic farming Cereals” (Bio Desaru);
- the Kota Tinggi Peng Yihai edge (Punggai);
- the Pontian’s Tanjung Yai national Park (Tanjung Piai);
- Kulai Po Hills leisure forest (Hutan Lipur Gunung Pulai); Erika Villa leisure forest
- Batu Pahat’s (Hutan Lipur Gunung Soga Batu Pahat) ;Jinshan recreational forest
- Tangkak of (Hutan Lipur Gunung Ledang);
- Pantai Kota Tinggi recreation forest’s (Hutan Lipur Gunung Panti); Sungai Segamat classes
- When recreational forest (Hutan Lipur Sg Bantang Segamat)
- The Kota Tinggi Kuala Lazio ri (Kuala Sedili);
- A hearty Port Blair Lane recreation forest (Hutan Lipur Arong);
- A Kluang Bruce wood recreation forest (Hutan Lipur Gunung Belumut).
