Tourism Malaysia is intensifying its 2015 Year-End Sale campaign in an effort to attract more Indonesians to visit and shop in Malaysia.

Tourism Malaysia deputy director-general Chong Yoke Har said the agency was confident more Indonesians would be interested to shop in Malaysia but they lack information on attractions and bargain shopping places.

"For this campaign, we brought 10 operators of shopping centres to provide information directly to tour agents in Indonesia on special offers in conjunction with the Year-End Sale in Malaysia," she told reporters here Wednesday.

She said apart from that, Tourism Malaysia was also cooperating with Garuda International, Bank Mandiri and a consortium of tourism agencies in Indonesia to offer tour shopping packages at special prices.

Tourism Malaysia is organising a tourism shopping campaign at three largest Indonesian cities, namely Jakarta, Surabaya and Medan.

Chong said from feedback of the promotion carried out, Tourism Malaysia received encouraging response from tour operators who wanted more comprehensive information and some were already making enquiries for the special packages for women groups to Malaysia.

She said Malaysia has more than 350 shopping centres and all of them will be taking part in the year-end sale from November 14 to January 3 next year.

She said Tourism Malaysia's shopping promotion will continue to be stepped up considering the desire of tourists who wanted to shop while on tour.

"There is a trend in the first quarter of this year when 28.12 per cent of tourists visited Malaysia to shop compared to 26.3 per cent who came for accommodation," she said.

Chong said tourists also were also given the privilege of getting Goods and Services Tax (GST) refund of six per cent at the airport before departing.

She said the refund was given either in cash, via bank transfer or the credit card Tourist Refund Scheme effective from April 1.

Tourism Malaysia is also confident of achieving its target of 36 million tourists to Malaysia with an expenditure value of RM168 billion by 2020, she said.

She said the confidence stemmed from Malaysian tourism promotion and products which were getting more attractive such shopping, entertainment, sports and golf.