The analysis of the language and visual images of the official tourism website of Malaysia shows
that the role of the website is to portray the destination through text and visual images. Then, the
identified imagery was compared across data sources, to determine the central discursive themes which
are prevalent in the data. Often text and visual image in the websites commonly have more than one
meaning, and in this respect, multimodal emerges as a key tool in identifying and analysing the
underlying meaning of text and picture or visual image (Kress & Van Leeuwen, 2006). The triangulation
of the examined text and visual images on the Malaysian tourism website helps to identify themes and
ideas that govern the discourse about Malaysia as a tourist destination.