{"id":10233,"date":"2009-06-24T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/its-time-to-shop-2\/"},"modified":"2009-06-24T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T07:20:00","slug":"its-time-to-shop-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/06\/its-time-to-shop-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Time to Shop!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travmedia.com\/images\/db\/29004.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travmedia.com\/images\/db\/29004.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Malaysia\u2019s 10th annual Mega Sales Carnival is back bigger and better this year, running nationally for eight weeks from 4 July to 31 August 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Major shopping precincts around the country including districts in Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Melaka, Johor and East Malaysia are all in their final stages of preparation for the massive sale season.<\/p>\n<p>Director of Tourism Malaysia Sydney, Mr Shahrin Mokhtar, says shopping is to Malaysians what bush-walking is to Australians. It is one of the nation\u2019s favourite pastimes and for good reason too, with the diverse range of local and international branded goods and services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople may shop less in Australia when times are tough, but that is not quite the scenario in Malaysia, where normal prices are exceptionally competitive, for example with prizes as low as AUD$10 for leather sandals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose \u2018in the know\u2019 know that Malaysian sales are famous for their generous discounts of up to 80%, especially on hip international brands such as Topshop, Zara, GAP, Raoul and Guess.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven luxury labels, including Gucci, Armani, DKNY, and Jimmy Choo offer attractive discounts during this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Shops open from 10am to 10pm, and sometimes later depending on location and crowds&#8230; One can literally shop til they drop!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith nothing short of a vibrant atmosphere, first timers to Malaysia may find the shopping season overwhelming, but will very soon get into the swing of bargaining and bargain hunting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there was one shopping trip worth travelling to, this is it,\u201d says Shahrin.<\/p>\n<p>MasterCard Worldwide, the official card of the Malaysia Mega Sale Carnival is offering redemptions at selected shopping venues and a competition with prizes amounting to RM100,000 (approx. AUD $40,000) cash prize.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Tourism Malaysia offices:<\/p>\n<p>Sydney<br \/>Level 2, 171 Clarence Street<br \/>Sydney, NSW 2000<br \/>T: (02) 9299 4441<br \/>F: (02) 9262 2026<br \/>E: malaysia@malaysiatourism.com.au<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne<br \/>1\/355 Exhibition Street<br \/>Melbourne, VIC 3000<br \/>T: (03) 9654 3177<br \/>F: (03) 9654 3176<br \/>E: tmmelbourne@malaysiatourism.com.au<\/p>\n<p>Perth<br \/>56, William Street<br \/>Perth, WA 6000<br \/>T: (08) 9481 0400<br \/>F: (08) 9321 142<br \/>E: tourism@iinet.com.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia\u2019s 10th annual Mega Sales Carnival is back bigger and better this year, running nationally for eight weeks from 4 July to 31 August 2009. Major shopping precincts around the country including districts in Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Melaka, Johor and East Malaysia are all in their final stages of preparation for the massive sale season. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}