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According to a study conducted by Tourism Malaysia, one of our country’s biggest draws for tourists, near and far, is our rich culture and diversity. Apart from historical walking and food tours, it is cultural events, traditional and modern arts, theatre, and film that are what attract visitors to the country. In fact, both the arts and tourism industries are co-dependent on each other to survive.  In a brand new episode of Hello Zafigo, Marina Mahathir, who is back on hosting duty, chats to Low Ngai Yuen and Susan Lankester about Malaysia’s creative communities and how it defines this nation and its people. They also delve into how the arts and film culture draws visitors to Malaysia, or any destination for that matter, and discuss why the arts and tourism industries need each other. This episode is also available as a video, watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/c/ZafigoTravel/ [https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/new/publish] Want to know what's coming up for Hello Zafigo? Head to www.hellozafigo.com for more info.

It’s never too early or late to take care of yourself and make healthy changes to your routine, so you think, feel, and look the best for yourself. This Women’s Health Month, #teamZafigo [https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/teamzafigo] encourages women to take control, starting from within.   In this session of Hello Zafigo, hosted by Zafigo’s Editor, Eliza Thomas, we speak to Lavender Tan, a clinical psychologist from The Mind Psychological Services and Training, which offers professional yet approachable individual, couple, family, and behavioural therapy amongst other services, as well as TV host and emcee Che Puan Sarimah Ibrahim, who is also a mental health advocate and patron of mental health advocacy and peer support NGO, MIASA Malaysia.   This episode is also available as a video, watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/c/ZafigoTravel/ [//] Want to know what's coming up for Hello Zafigo? Head to www.hellozafigo.com for more info.

Travelling is one of the best things to do in life. Now find out why trying out new food is the reason travelling is the best adventure! Hello Zafigo is back for a third season and in the opening episode, host Marina Mahathir speaks to three major foodies who travel specifically to gain culinary inspiration – "queen of spice" Sapna Anand; chief eating officer of The BIG Group, Benjamin Yong; and Food Hero Asia winner, Ili Sulaiman. These gastronomes come together to talk about their tantalising adventures, delicious discoveries, and the flavourful inspirations behind some of their most popular ventures. This episode is also available as a video, watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/c/ZafigoTravel/ [https://www.youtube.com/c/ZafigoTravel/] Want to know what's coming up for Hello Zafigo? Head to www.hellozafigo.com [https://zafigo.com/hello-zafigo/] for more info.

As the world slowly recovers from COVID-19 and borders start to open across many countries, travel will take on a whole new meaning. 2021 is (hopefully) set to be the year when travellers and travel businesses push for a return to normality, but the pandemic has and will continue to change how we choose to travel.  So what travel trends can we expect to see in the new year – not just for travellers but for businesses within the tourism industry as well?   In this last Hello Zafigo session for the year, Zafigo’s founder, Marina Mahathir gets insights from Rohan Raghavan, the Industry Manager for Travel at Google, and Emily Tan, the Marketing Lead for Klook Malaysia, and talk about what is in store for travel. This episode is also available as a video, watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/c/ZafigoTravel/ [https://www.youtube.com/c/ZafigoTravel/] Want to know what's coming up for Hello Zafigo? Head to www.hellozafigo.com [https://www.hellozafigo.com/] for more info.

As we become more dependent on social media as a means for news and information, the value of social media influencers continues to grow and evolve. For the travel market specifically, social content seems to influence travellers’ destination choices more than any other type of advertising.   Join us as we speak to three key opinion leaders in the travel scene — Thuymi Do (Adventure Faktory [http://www.adventurefaktory.com/]), Pashmina Binwani (The Gone Goat [https://www.thegonegoat.com/]), and Mynn Lee (She Walks The World [https://shewalkstheworld.com/]) — about the glamorous (and not so glamorous) life of a travel influencer and the possible pressures that come with it. We also touch on the current pandemic, how it has affected their globetrotting plans for the year, and what they think the future holds for the industry.   This episode is also available as a video, watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/c/ZafigoTravel/ [https://www.youtube.com/c/ZafigoTravel/] Want to know what's coming up for Hello Zafigo? Head to www.hellozafigo.com [https://www.hellozafigo.com/] for more info.