New allure of malaysia

[Photo by Ou Shuyi/China Daily]

A five-day trip from Shanghai to Sabah now costs less than 1,900 yuan.

A five-day trip from Shanghai to Langkawi, including five-star hotel accommodation, is available at less than 3,000 yuan throughout May, more than 50 percent off compared with last year's price.

Six-day trips to Malaysia and Singapore are attractively priced at around 3,000 yuan.

"Malaysia has well-developed infrastructure to offer tourists," Dai says.

"They don't have to worry about food disagreeing with them, since Malaysian Chinese account for 22 percent of the country's total population."

Drivers should be aware that traffic direction in Malaysia is the opposite of China, Dai adds.

"Vehicles are running towards the left and tourists should pay attention."

Roughly 1.6 million Chinese tourists went to Malaysia in 2014, down 9.9 percent compared with the previous year, according to the Malaysian embassy in China.

Some 266 flights from China to the capital city, Kuala Lumpur, were canceled following the tragedies of the flights MH370 and MH17, Malay Mail Online reports, noting that visitors from China still comprise Sabah's biggest number of foreign tourist arrivals, some 30 percent of the total.