KUALA LUMPUR, 9 JULY 2019 – The nation’s tourism industry recorded a positive
tourist arrivals growth of +4.8% for the
January-May 2019 period, registering a total of 10,954,014 tourist
arrivals compared to 10,454,447 in
the same period last year.
The short-haul market, i.e. ASEAN, maintained
its lead as the biggest contributor of international tourist arrivals to
Malaysia with a share of 69.2%, reflecting a +4.7% increase
to 7,584,128 tourists
compared to 7,245,570 tourists during the same
period last year. The increase was fueled by positive arrival growth from
markets such as Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.
Meanwhile, the share for the medium-haul
market was 21.4% with a +7.6% increase
of arrivals to 2,347,789 tourists.
This was mainly driven by market growth in East Asia (such as China, South
Korea and Japan) and South Asia (such as India and Pakistan) which saw a rise
of +6.7% and +11.0% respectively
compared to the same period in 2018.
The long-haul market recorded a 9.4% share,
down by -0.2% with arrivals of 1,021,228 tourists.
This downward trend was mainly due to a drop in arrivals from West Asia, Africa
and several European countries such as France, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden
impacted by insufficient numbers of direct flights serving these markets to
Malaysia.
The total arrivals to Malaysia for 45 main
markets during the January-May 2019 period is attached. To download the data,
please visit: http://mytourismdata.tourism.gov.my/
-Tourism Malaysia.
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