Tourism Industry In Malaysia 2017
However the wef said that malaysia s business environ ment and investment in cultural resources need improving.
Tourism industry in malaysia 2017. Malaysia has also improved in ict readiness tourism ser vice infrastructure and international openness. Aggressive measures taken to boost malaysia s tourism and hospitality industry which include hotels foods restaurants chefs as well as food services equipment and suppliers. Malaysia 51st tourism working group meeting penang malaysia 10 11 october 2017. Overall international tourist arrivals of 25 9 million tourists were recorded in 2017 generating over rm82 2 billion in revenue.
Tourism industry continued its significant contribution to malaysia s economy with a share of 14 9 per cent in 2017 as compared to 10 4 per cent in 2005. 18 malaysia s tourism industry at a glance purpose. To further enhance its competitiveness the government could further prioritise the travel and tourism industry and. For an in depth report on malaysia s tourism performance in 2017 kindly download the tourism malaysia 2017 annual report for your further reference.
Retail trade remained the largest share at 44 8 per cent 2005. These have been formulated configured and analysed to provide industry players with concise and useful information such as facts and figures on the performance of malaysian tourism sector. Next year the ministry is targeting to have 72 6 million domestic tourists with an expected tourism revenue of rm51 2bil a sum almost 6 higher than last year s revenue of rm48 4bil from 66 million visitors.