Sunday, November 04, 2007

Islands, seafood luring Chinese tourists to Sabah


KUNMING: Sabah’s islands and abundant seafood are drawing more tourists from mainland China with the number visiting between January and August already surpassing that for the whole of last year.

Preliminary figures show that a total of 38,891 Chinese nationals came in the first eight months of the year compared with 32,268 for the whole of last year.

“Many Chinese tourists come especially during the three major week-long breaks in China, for the Chinese New Year, May labour and October national day holidays,” Sabah Assistant Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Karim Bujang said.

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