The Dragon Inn Floating Resort, located at Semporna, Sabah, acquired the seventh place in the top ten floating hotels list, based on a compilation by a leading men’s lifestyle website that attracts more that 7 million monthly readers, AskMen.com (http://www.askmen.com/).

The website describes the resort as such: “Built on the sea near Semporna, the Dragon Inn Floating Resort or Semporna Floating, as it is otherwise known – offers guests sumptuous rooms on stilts and a unique paradise island resort with palm-leaf roofing. Not only does the hotel offer every conceivable creature comfort, but the structural design of the hotel affords guests a sense of a traditional Bajau water village. An experience you won’t find in copied hotel chains on the mainland. As you’d expect, the hotel offers some of the best diving opportunities on this side of this world, with daily dive trips to the world-famous spots in Sipadan.”

The complete list of the Top Ten Floating Hotels includes some properties that have yet to open:

1) King Pacific Lodge, British Columbia, Canada

2) ReefWorld, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

3) Oberoi Udaivilas, Udaipur, India

4) Aerohotel, Russia

5) Conrad Maldives, Rangali Island, Maldives

6) Floating & Rotating Hotel Tower, Dubai, U.A.E.

7) Dragon Inn Floating Resort, Semporna, Malaysia

Bora Bora Lagoon Resort & Spa, Bora Bora, French Polynesia

9) Punta Caracol, Panama, South America

10) Six Senses, Soneva Gili, Male, Maldives

The listing is even more significant as the Dragon Inn Floating Resort is the only Southeast Asian property that made it into the top ten. A great feat for hotels in Malaysia.

Sabah is known for its many wonderful and unique attractions that appeal to both local and international visitors. The prominent Mount Kinabalu, located at the Kinabalu National Park, a World Heritage Site, is one of the highest mountains in Southeast Asia. The Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre, Tabin Wildlife Reserve and Crocker Range National Park are some of the places that offer vast flora and fauna discoveries. Certainly not to be missed during Malaysia vacation.

For those who love the islands, Mabul Island, Pulau Tiga, Turtle Island, Tunku Abdul Rahman Park, just to name a few, are the well-known diving spots in Sabah. For adventure-seekers, Mountain Torq Via Ferrata at Kundasang, a mountain ‘trail’ made up of iron rungs, palettes (footholds), cables and rails that are wrapped around the North Face of Mount Kinabalu, is not to be disregarded.

Malaysia recorded a total of 2,030,337 foreign tourists in August 2009, an increase of 10.4%, compared to the same month in 2008. Cumulatively, arrivals recorded from January to August 2009 were 15,380,505 tourists, representing an increase of 4.4% compared to 14,730,437 tourists for the same period in 2008.

In terms of the tourist arrivals from China (including Hong Kong and Macau), a total of 660,940 Chinese tourists sojourned Malaysia from January to August 2009. This is an increase of 0.2% compared to the same period in 2008. Last year, China ranked fifth in tourist arrivals to Malaysia where a total of 949,864 tourist arrivals from China were recorded, registering an increase of 20.3%, compared to 789,568 Chinese tourists in 2007.

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