Ada Poon is the founder AmLeisure Group Berhad, which operates four travel and tourism-related business entities (Travel Guide, World Tourism, Go Traz and Space Hotel) and Techcas Holdings. A graduate of the School of Business Administration, Stamford University, Malaysia, she is currently the managing director AmLeisure Group and President of Young Entrepreneurs & Women Entrepreneurs of SME Association of Malaysia.
As an accomplished professional in the travel and tourism industry, Ada is mainly responsible for marketing, planning and business execution at AmLeisure. Armed with 17 years of media and publishing experience in addition to three years of managing a public company, she is highly proficient in all aspects of management, specialising in sales and marketing, brand planning, event management and magazine production.
Ada’s well-qualified insights in the travel and tourism industry has been honed through years of travelling around the world by experiencing various interesting cultures and customs of many different countries. Her rich tapestry of experiences and observations is often shared with her peers and associates to further improve the travel and tourism industry.
Following her establishment of the World Tourism Awards – Malaysia in 2019, Ada is now regarded as one of the new and young driving forces breathing new life and enthusiasm into the Malaysian travel and tourism industry. By establishing the annual awards, it is her fervent belief that they can spawn greater awareness and recognition on the need to have all-round service excellence at all levels and sectors of the expanding industry.
Based on her observations of industry trends and developments around various tourism sectors around the world, Ada feels that there is plenty that Malaysia can do to attract greater numbers of long-stay travellers, well-heeled tourists and adventure-seekers, raise industry standards and generate valuable foreign exchange for the country.
Against the backdrop of the ‘Malaysia Boleh’ spirit, Ada believes that Malaysia can achieve more in the global travel and tourism industry and bring greater prosperity to Malaysians in the process.
AmLeisure Group Berhad has enjoyed international success with the ultimate objective of promoting Malaysia’s tourism industry to an international aspect as our company is specialised and experienced in tourism-related business entities, which are Travel Guide, World Tourism, GoTraz and Space Hotel.
We are the publisher of travel magazines known as 《Travel Guide》, 《探世界》 and 《Cuti-Cuti》 with an estimated 175,000 readership published across nationwide. With great opportunities, we collaborated with MATTA FAIR Show Daily, ATF Show Daily, MITM Supplement and FHM Show Daily as their exclusive official media partner. Amleisure group possesses a space themed hotel well known as “Space Hotel” with a highly rated score of 9.2/10.
We bring forth new ideas by having our ecommerce platforms called Gotraz and Gotraz TV, aiming to improve the satisfaction and experience of Malaysia’s travel guide. We are recognized as the organizer of the World Top Tourism award which acknowledges and rewards excellence parties in travel and tourism. We pledged to provide our service with proficiency and positive attitude in order to achieve great success in the travel and tourism industry.
