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Langkawi Becomes Popular Destination For Chinese Tourists

Writer: LI JUNXIAN

Editor: GUO ZHUOZHUANG


(Credit: StarTribune.com, photo by Huang Bingbing)


KAJANG, 8 May - Recently,the news is about the previous visa-free policy between China and Malaysia swept through many Malaysian news platforms, with the Chinese Ambassador to Malaysia, Mr. Ouyang Jing, announcing the extension of the visa-free policy until the end of 2025, which will attract a large number of tourists to visit Malaysia.


After the introduction of this policy, relevant people learned that more and more Chinese tourists began to prepare passports and other travel preparations, began to book air tickets and travel to Malaysia, and began to formulate relevant travel strategies. Tourists' enthusiasm for traveling to Malaysia continues to rise. Arrivals rose to 60,000 in March from about 45,000 last year, and as high as 120,000 during the Lunar New Year period in February.


For Malaysia, the tourism economy is also slowly improving, for China's tourism is alsosame situation, there are some Malaysians begin to choose to travel to China for tourism, but the visit to Malaysia. For Malaysia's Langkawi travel hotspot also slowly began to have a lot of tourists noticed and ready to start going.


Langkawi is located in Malaysia's northern state of Kedah, is one of Malaysia's stunning mecca for vacation and tourism, the region consists of a total of 99 large and small islands, in this coastal tourist mecca, there are like island hopping, mangrove forests, watching the sunset and watching waterfalls and other attractions and projects to make the tourists experience a good one.


In the Kajang area, we also saw several Chinese tourists who came to Kuala Lumpur. They are all employees working in the company. They came to Malaysia during their own holidays and heard that they were about to embark on a journey to Langkawi. Magical journey.


Zhang Chao said “We booked our flights to Malaysia as soon as we found out about the extension of the visa waiver policy, it's a beautiful place but we'll be heading to Langkawi soon, we heard it's fun to enjoy the beautiful sunset and see a lot of wildlife there”.

It is encouraging to see that there are more and more Chinese tourists traveling to Langkawi, many people from China come to Malaysia in addition to shopping in Kuala Lumpur is to travel to places like Langkawi to enjoy the scenery.


He said his good friend Zheng Nan once went to Langkawi, but because of work reasons only stayed for two days and rushed back to China, and did not enjoy it. The visa-free policy just let them and their party to come here to enjoy the different scenery.


Zheng Nan first showed us the photos of his last trip to Langkawi, and said that he only went to Langkawi's Sky Bridge to check in, and rushed back to China to deal with his work in addition to watching the sunset at night.


(Credit:China Visitors)


“This time I've asked two of my good friends to join me in taking advantage of the visa waiver to travel to Langkawi once again and make sure to enjoy the mangrove forests and island hopping trips, we'll be left with a precious impression of Langkawi! “

Hai Li, the last person in the trio tour, said that this time, his two best friends want to come to Langkawi to have fun with a strong desire, and he is more of a follower.


“What can I say, Langkawi is a scenic place and it's a lot of fun to go there with close friends you know well, looking forward to all the best for our trip to Malaysia. “

Langkawi continues to attract Chinese tourists to go there, and through this extension of the visa-free policy, more and more Chinese tourists are also familiar with Langkawi as a place to visit, this is a huge step forward for the local economy.







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