MGTO'S MALAY WEBSITE A BIG HIT AMONG MALAYSIAN TRAVELLERS

KUCHING (Malaysia), July 26 (Bernama) -- The Macau Government Tourist Office
(MGTO) has been getting encouraging response to its newly launched Malay
website, which provides useful information for Malay-speaking travellers
planning to visit Macau, its representative and marketing manager in Malaysia,
Ho Yoke Ping said Monday.

She said the website - http://my.macautourism.gov.mo - which was aimed at
attracting more Malaysian tourists to Macau, received a monthly average of 1,000
hits from those seeking information on places to see, shop, stay as well as
upcoming events and festivals.

"The new website assists Malaysian travel agents to access more information
to promote Macau better as an attractive destination to potential travellers
from Malaysia. A number of promotional events are also being planned, including
participation at Malaysia Association of Tour and Travel Agents (Matta) Fair,"
she told Bernama.

Apart from the Malay website, she said, the MGTO website was now available
in 11 other languages, including Chinese, Portuguese, English, Japanese, Korean,
Thai, German, French, Bahasa Indonesia, Russian and Arabic.

She said Malaysia was Macau’s fifth largest visitor-generating market, which
accounted for 332,529 Malaysians out of 21.7 million tourist arrivals last year.

Currently, low-cost airline AirAsia offers three daily direct flights from
Kuala Lumpur and three weekly direct flights from Penang although its
Kuching-Macau sector has since been suspended.

She said among the recently-opened new tourism facilities that would
interest Malaysian travellers are the Macau Science Centre, Malo Clinic, Encore
at Wynns Macau, the new Mandarin Oriental Macau and shopping stores at the One
Central, Macau.

The world's largest water-themed show, "The House of Dancing Water" by
Franco Dragone has been scheduled to open in the third-quarter of this year at
the City of Dreams, in Cotai, Macau, she said.

-- BERNAMA