PENANG will see its first hotel with water chalets opening soon in Teluk Kumbar.

State Tourism Development and Culture committee chairman Danny Law Heng Kiang said that the hotel with water chalets was among three new hotels that will be opening in the near future.

“The other two hotels will be located in George Town and Bayan Baru,” he said.

He said that tourism was increasing in the state and the hotels were being built to meet the demand.

“We have been aggressively promoting Penang food and culture in other countries and the results are showing with the increased number of tourists in the state,” he said.

He said the most number of tourists coming to Penang were from Indonesia followed by Singapore, China, Japan, United States of America, Taiwan, Australia and Thai- land.

“With the opening of these new hotels, we expect to see a higher increase in tourists,” he said.

Source: The Star