Malaysia Tourist Arrivals 2017

Currently for 2017 a target of 31 8 million visitors to malaysia is set and the theme malaysia truly asia will continue to be used to promote malaysia.

Malaysia tourist arrivals 2017. It focuses on the specific task of promoting malaysia as a preferred tourism destination. State tourism fee imposed by the penang state government is exempted from 1 july till 31 december. In the first 10 months of 2017 malaysia s tourist arrivals fell 2 5 to 21 5 million from 22 1 million during the same period of 2016. In 2017 the total number of muslim tourist arrivals to malaysia was approximately 5 38 million.

In 2015 there were approximately 5 15 million muslim tourist arrivals in malaysia. Nazri during an interview with the media in early january. China ranked third in terms of visitor arrivals to malaysia in the first quarter. Looking forward we estimate tourist arrivals in malaysia to stand at 1000000 00 in 12 months time.

This was mentioned by the tourism minister to malaysia dato seri mohd. According to tourism malaysia the total visitor arrivals in malaysia were flat in the first quarter falling 0 5 percent year on year. However the tourism tax of rm10 00 per room per night is exempted for all arrivals from 1 july 2020 till 30 june 2021 while the exemption of 6 service tax has been extended until 30th june 2021. The room rate is inclusive of 10 service charge.

2016 2017 growth december 2016 2017 2016 2017 growth. To find more details on malaysia tourist arrivals tourist receipts and other tourism performance data please visit mytourismdata portal. Tourist arrivals to malaysia by country of nationality december 2017. Since its inception it has emerged as a major player in the international tourism scene.

In 2017 domestic tourism malaysia achieved a higher record in number of visitor arrivals and tourism expenditure. A total of 205 4 million domestic visitors 1 were recorded in 2017 with a growth of 8 5 per cent compared to 189 3 million registered in 2016. 1 singapore 1 317 113 1 248 917 5 2 13 272 961 12 441 713 6 3 2 indonesia 333 626 253 403 24 0 3 049 964 2 796 570 8 3 4 china 212 581 213 822 0 6 2 124 942 2 281 666 7 4 3 brunei 178 182 152 617 14 3 1 391 016. This makes up only 69 4 of the government s target of 31 million tourists arrivals for the whole of 2017.

Meanwhile number of trips increased from 253 9 million trips in 2016 to 276 1 million trips. Tourist arrivals in malaysia is expected to be 850000 00 by the end of this quarter according to trading economics global macro models and analysts expectations.