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Saturday, 25 March 2017 JOHOR BAHRU: The Johor Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents (MATTA) is targeting sales of tourism packages worth RM15 million at the MATTA fair here. Chairman of the Johor Tourism, Domestic Trade and Consumerism Committee, Datuk Tee Siew Kiong, said he expected about 13,000 people …

Wednesday, 8 March 2017   Most people who have seen live giant pandas have done so at a zoo. Some are lucky enough to visit panda breeding centres in Sichuan province. But it’s extremely rare to see a giant panda in the wild. Now, Sichuan is planning tourism routes across …

Monday, 13 February 2017 GEORGE TOWN: She may be already 70 but for Christa Lemckam, the search for a soulmate appears to continue albeit in a cheeky way. “Please soulmate, come. “Nice, polite and rich perhaps,” she wrote on a mandarin orange before tossing it into the sea. The German …

Tuesday, 7 February 2017 More wealthy Chinese adventurers have scrambled to get to Antarctica during this Chinese New Year holiday season, with the country’s biggest online travel agency reporting a sharp rise in bookings, which can cost more than 200,000 yuan ($29,150). Since November, Ctrip has received more than 100 …

Thursday, 2 February 2017 OSAKA – The Lunar New Year holiday season kicked off Friday as Chinese and other tourists jammed major airports ahead of Asia’s traditional turn of the year on Saturday. “I have visited Japan 10 times or more and love this country,” said Li Wen-hsuan, 46, upon …

Tuesday, 15 August 2017 :  An American tourist suffered minor injuries in the German city of Dresden on Saturday morning after he was punched and beaten for repeatedly giving Nazi salutes. German police are investigating the man for violating the country’s post-1945 laws that ban the use of Nazi symbols. …

Monday, 17 July 2017 PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Tourists flocked to Cambodia’s newest world heritage site on the weekend, the 16th and 17th century forest temple of Sambor Prei Kuk after it was recently added to the U.N. cultural organisation’s heritage list. With its inspiring and tumultuous history, Cambodia attracts …

Wednesday, 24 May 2017 SEOUL: Chinese tourist numbers to South Korea plunged by two-thirds in April after Beijing banned tour groups over Seoul’s deployment of a US missile defence system, official statistics showed. Beijing imposed a boycott from 15 March on Chinese tour groups visiting the South in a spat …

Thursday, 6 April 2017 KUALA LUMPUR: Total tourist arrivals to Malaysia this year could jump by over 4% on-year after airline bookings from China to Malaysia surged 72% on-year from 16 March to 31 August 2017. This was after China discouraged its citizens from visiting South Korea, Maybank Investment Bank …