Tourism Industry In Malaysia 2017
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Tourism industry in malaysia 2017. Malaysia 51st tourism working group meeting penang malaysia 10 11 october 2017. Retail trade remained the largest share at 44 8 per cent 2005. Measures the contribution of tourism industry to the economy it conforms formally to the format established in the sna. Overall international tourist arrivals of 25 9 million tourists were recorded in 2017 generating over rm82 2 billion in revenue.
41 0 and posted a double digit growth of 12 4 per cent as compared to 10 5 per cent in the preceding year. 18 malaysia s tourism industry at a glance purpose. 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. 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.
For an in depth report on malaysia s tourism performance in 2017 kindly download the tourism malaysia 2017 annual report for your further reference. Malaysia had been experiencing negative year on year growth in visitor arrivals since 2017 which coincided with a stagnation of the tourism receipts between the years 2016 to 2018. Thursday 06 august 2020 1200. 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.
Kuala lumpur 16 4 sarawak 9 6 johor 9 4 pulau pinang 6 7 and sabah 6 0. Although malaysia has offered tourists various tourism products a range of niche markets including cultural and heritage tourism medical tourism sarwar 2013 educational tourism ojo et al. Department of statistics malaysia 14 16 february 2017.