马航事故削弱中国人赴马旅行意愿

Many Chinese spectators who have watched the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 unfold are emphatic about one thing: the tragedy has made it less likely they'll include Malaysia in future travel plans.

对于目睹了马来西亚航空公司(Malaysia Airlines, 简称：马航) 370航班搜寻过程的很多中国人而言，有一点十分肯定：这次的悲剧使他们将来把马来西亚作为旅行目的地的意愿下降。

On Monday night, Malaysian authorities announced they had concluded that Flight 370, bound from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and carrying 239 people--153 of whom were Chinese--had crashed in the Indian Ocean. The announcement capped more than two weeks of waiting for news by families, some of whom have accused the airline of failing to release information in a timely fashion.

周一晚间，马来西亚政府宣布，已经得出结论，从吉隆坡飞往北京的370航班（机上共有239人，其中153名中国人）已经在印度洋坠毁。此前失联航班机上人员家属已经等待了两周多，其中一些人指责马航信息发布不及时。

As of Tuesday morning, an online Sina poll found that 77% of more than 38,400 respondents said the incident had influenced whether they'd be likely to travel to Malaysia in the future. Another 19% said it hadn't made a difference, while 4% said they weren't sure.

截至周二上午，新浪(Sina)的网上调查显示，超过38,400名受访者中，77%表示该事故影响了他们未来前往马来西亚旅行的意愿，另外19%表示没有影响，还有4%的回答是不确定。

China currently accounts for 12% of tourists to Malaysia, according to a research report by Bank of America-Merrill Lynch. Such tourists together account for 6% of Malaysia's total tourism receipts, or 0.4% of GDP.

美银美林(Bank of America-Merrill Lynch)的研究报告显示，目前前往马来西亚的游客中中国人占12%，给马来西亚贡献了6%的旅游业收入，相当于国内生产总值(GDP)的0.4%。

Meanwhile, anger erupted online over Malaysia's handling of the latest news on the missing flight, particularly that the official conclusion that the plane had crashed--delivered at 10 p.m. Monday night by Malaysia's prime minister--was sent to a number of family members by text message only shortly before the information was made public.

网民们对马来西亚方面发布失联航班最新消息的手法深感不满，尤其是马来西亚官方关于飞机已坠毁结论的发布方式――在周一晚间10点马来西亚总理对外宣布这一官方结论的不久前，马来西亚方面仅用一条短信通知失踪乘客家属结果。

'The way they announced their conclusions was too simple, too cruel. Can't they understand the feelings of those who've been praying for so long?' wrote one user on Sina Weibo.

新浪微博(Sina Weibo)的一名用户写道，这种方式太简单粗暴，他们就不能理解家属们的感受？家属们祈祷了那么久。

On its verified Weibo account, the official Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily said it wasn't satisfied with Malaysian authorities' conclusions, which officials have said were derived from British air crash investigators' data. 'The reality is still unclear, the search cannot stop. We want the truth!'

《人民日报》通过其认证的官方微博帐号发文称，马方表示，这是根据英国航空事故调查局数据得出的结论；事实依然模糊，搜索不能停止，我们需要真相！”

Other users still held out hope: 'Countrymen above the lost plane, as well as those brothers and sisters from other nations: No matter what terrible situation you've encountered, please believe that we will continue to hope for a miracle. Our homeland is launching search and rescue efforts with all its strength, and we await the safe return of all the people aboard. You can do it, my homeland! You can do it.'

也有一些微博用户仍心存希望，他们写道：“失踪飞机上的同胞，以及来自其他国家的兄弟姐妹们，无论你们的处境有多糟糕，请相信我们仍在期待一个奇迹，我们的祖国正在竭尽全力进行搜救，我们等待机上所有人平安归来，我的祖国，你可以做到的。”