The travel company in China Mainland in recent weeks announced the number of tourists to Malaysia decreased by 50%, in the context of service missing plane MH370 carrying 153 passengers China made many people uneasy.
Currently a number of celebrities and many Chinese people are calling for a boycott of the tour to Malaysia after missing flight MH370 8/3 day.
According to senior marketing director of site Ctrip.com, the largest travel websites China: "In the two weeks after the incident, we have recorded the number of tourists from China to northern Malaysia fell 50% compared with the same last year, including tourists traveling in groups and individual guests. "
3 largest travel company is China International China Travel Service, China Youth Travel Service and BTG International Travel & Tours are recognized phenomenon similar reduction.
"The impact has spread to most of the places in Southeast Asia", an employee of China International. "A lot of travel packages, including Malaysia and Thailand, customers refuse to come, not only by aircraft but also due to missing political instability in Thailand".
But at a resort in Kota Kinabalu, capital of Sabah state on the coast, northeastern Malaysia, businesses seem to be less affected, at least at this point.
"Most of our customers have booked 2-3 months in advance", Aaron Chang, a project manager at the resort KK-Suites Residence said. "Maybe to 1-2 months before we recorded the impact."
According to Malaysia's tourism agency, the country last year welcomed 1.79 million Chinese visitors, up nearly 15% over the previous year. China is the largest source of international tourists of Malaysia 3rd, while the country's tourism industry is ranked 6th in contribution to GDP.
Luo Juan, a senior analyst at market research firm Forward forecasts Information Chinese tourists to Malaysia this year will be reduced from 20-40%, or from 400000-800000 visitors.
If each visitor spending an average of 10,000 yuan (1625 USD) for his vacation, the total loss will be from 4-8 billion yuan (650 million - 1.2 billion)
"It may take about a year before we see a recovery," she says Juan.
The impact of these calls to boycott travel to Malaysia via Malaysia airlines is still unclear how serious.
Chen Kun, a famous film star in China has called on the Chinese to boycott Malaysia in a message on the microblogging passage of this actor.
"I will initiate a boycott from deep in his heart for any advertising or any trip to Malaysia. It will last until the Malaysian government removed as clown mask, and told us the truth, "the actor said.
Chen has around 70 million fans on microblogging, and his message was about 70,000 others published again, attracting nearly 30,000 comments, many comments supported.
Some tourists have canceled tours to China. Wang Dezhang, a businessman in Shanghai, said his wife and daughter, along with 14 other families have changed travel plans to Malaysia is expected in July.
"We have put before everything, but still decided to cancel the trip because of them worry about safety," Mr Wang said.
China Youth Travel Service Co., confirmed it had stopped cooperation with Malaysia Airlines in the tour to Kota Kinabalu, and committed to a refund for any guests who wanted to cancel the tour.
"After MH370 incident, some people asked the tour to Malaysia fell to near 0, although this is low season to Malaysia", Ge Lei, a marketing manager of the travel company on the confirmation.
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