Friday 29 Mar 2024
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KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 7): Low-cost carrier AirAsia Bhd has won an Asean Business Award following its outstanding performance in the Asean priority integration sector – tourism.

Its group chief executive officer Tan Sri Tony Fernandes accepted the award on behalf of the company at the Asean Business Awards (ABA) 2017 ceremony held at Solaire Resort and Casino at Manila, the Philippines yesterday.

He said Asean integration is about people as much as it is about policies. It's not just about having a community on paper. It’s about experiencing first-hand how others live, it’s about creating new jobs in travel and tourism, it’s about forming new supply chains by connecting places that have never been connected.

“Air travel does this and more - AirAsia carried 13.4 million people within Asean last year - and we are proud to do our part to bring the region closer together,” the statement read.

Created in 2007 by the Asean Business Advisory Council, ABA is set to recognise outstanding Asean enterprises, which serve as a platform to spread information on the Asean Economic Community, and spotlight small medium enterprises (SMEs) that have the potential of becoming global economic players in their respective industries.

At 10.25am AirAsia share rose 0.88% or three sen to RM3.43 with 2.4 million shares traded, for a market capitalisation of RM11.36 billion.

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