{"id":33888,"date":"2006-09-14T08:59:29","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T00:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2006\/09\/14\/malaysia-wants-more-chinese-tourists\/"},"modified":"2006-09-14T08:59:29","modified_gmt":"2006-09-14T00:59:29","slug":"malaysia-wants-more-chinese-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2006\/09\/14\/33888\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Wants More Chinese Tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lim Siang Chai, Deputy Minister of Malaysia's Tourism Department, says the country will increase the number of Chinese officers at their department from the current 9 to 60 in order to help attract more Chinese tourists to visit the country.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to Lim, there are totally 600 officers at the Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board, but only 9 of them are Chinese and this has seriously influenced their work to attract more tourists from China.<\/p>\n<p>Lim pointed out that China and India, the two countries with the largest populations in the world, have been growing and they have become a main target for countries across the world to seek for more tourists. Lim said that China and India will be the largest outbound tourist countries in the next 10-20 years, so they need to recruit more officers with Chinese or Indian backgrounds to facilitate their work of attracting more tourists from these two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lim Siang Chai, Deputy Minister of Malaysia's Tourism Department, says the country will increase the number of Chinese officers at their department from the current 9 to 60 in order to help attract more Chinese tourists to visit the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}