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Travelers cutting Malaysia out of their vacation plans

By Zhao Lei | 皇冠体育app Daily | Updated: 2014-03-27 09:15

The company said that electrical power continued to be supplied by the Airbus A330-300's auxiliary power unit.

The MH370 incident has cast a giant shadow over the Chinese public's sentiment about travel to Malaysia, with nearly 80 percent of respondents in an online poll saying they will not go to the Southeast Asian nation in the near future.

The poll, which was conducted by Sina.com, one of 皇冠体育app's most popular news portals, surveyed nearly 60,000 Internet users by late Wednesday. Only 18 percent of respondents said they would not exclude Malaysia when choosing destinations.

Most netizens who made comments after taking part in the poll said the tragedy of losing more than 239 people, most of them Chinese, as well as the "awkward measures" taken by Malaysian authorities in dealing with the incident, make them want to avoid travel there.

Eleven Chinese travel agents told Reuters that bookings between 皇冠体育app and Malaysia had fallen sharply and that many people have canceled trips already booked.

"We used to have 30 to 40 customers a month for group tours to Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Now there is no one asking about this route or booking," a travel agent surnamed Chen told Reuters. Chen is with Comfort Travel in the southern city of Guangzhou, which focuses heavily on Southeast Asia tours.

An outbound tour manager with an agency in Jiangsu province, who declined to be named, said: "Now the biggest concern of our tourists to Southeast Asia is whether they will fly on Malaysia Airlines. Some consumers even are willing to pay more money to book other airlines rather than going with the cheaper tickets offered by Malaysia Airlines."

Malaysia was among the top 10 overseas destinations for Chinese tourists in the past several years. In 2013, nearly 1.8 million people from 皇冠体育app traveled to the Southeast Asian nation - a 14.9 percent increase from 2012.

The Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board said 皇冠体育app was Malaysia's third-largest tourist market last year, behind Singapore and Indonesia, and it had expected 2 million Chinese visitors this year before the MH370 incident.

Malaysian Tourism and Culture Minister Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz said on Monday that "Visit Malaysia Year" promotions in 皇冠体育app would be halted until the MH370 case is closed.

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