Cultural tourism forms an important component of international tourism in our world today. It represents the movements of people motivated by cultural intents such as study tours, performing arts, festivals, cultural events, visits to sites and monuments, as well as travel for pilgrimages. Cultural tourism is also about immersion in and enjoyment of the lifestyle of the local people, the local area and what constitutes its identity and character.
In Malaysia, we can find a lot of places that are related with cultural tourism. As we know Malaysia is one of the place that has a lot of ethnic that has different concept of culture. We can find so many interesting culture in Malaysia.
The culture of Malaysia draws on the varies cultures of the different people of Malaysia. They were consist of Malay, Chinese, Indian and others people that are living in Malaysia. We can see the develop of culture since our sultanese history and the culture are still remain till now.
We can see the culture in Malaysia from festival, performing arts, cultural events, visits to sites and monuments. In Malaysia, they have many festival as an attraction to the tourist to come to Malaysia. For instance, the major festival in malaysia include hari raya aidilfitri, chinese new year, deepavali, penang international dragon boat festival, national boat festival.
Besides festival, Malaysia are also full with arts, museum and ethnic culture. This the the attraction that attract tourist to get more knowledge about Malaysia culture. For instance, there was a lot of museum that shows Malaysia culture such as National Museum in Kuala Lumpur, Cheng Hong Cultural Museum in Malacca, Sarawak Living Museum, and Negeri Sembilan museums and craft culture complex.
Ethnic culture is also one of the attraction in cultural tourism. As we know Malaysia stand for variety of ethnic which is Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazan, Iban and others. They are stand for variety culture that has bring forward from their past generation. We can see the culture from their cloths, food, tradition and lifestyle.
Malaysia need to improve their services in order to get more tourist to travel to the Malaysia. So that, others people can feel the variety of culture in Malaysia.
