Trailing badly in bid for Chinese tourists

WE had better wake up. Malaysia is trailing badly in the competition to attract the increasingly affluent Chinese to this part of the world and the dipping statistics are certainly a cause for concern. 

Chinese tourists to the country, who used to form the biggest contingent of visitors from outside South East Asia, dropped by more than half this year. Only 148,000 Chinese tourists visited our country in the first half of this year, a dramatic drop from last year’s 550,000.