PUTRAJAYA, Nov 27 (Bernama) — Overall, Malaysia’s tourism industry performance from January to September 2019 showed positive development.International tourist arrivals to Malaysia went up by +3.7% to 20,109,203 tourists for the period of January to September 2019 compared with 19,386,115 tourists for the same period in 2018. The top 10 countries with highest contribution of tourist arrivals were Singapore (7,868,755 tourist arrivals), Indonesia (2,792,776), China (2,413,956), Thailand (1,442,224), Brunei (929,789), India (539,167), South Korea (508,080), Vietnam (323,393), Japan (321,283) and the Philippines (317,294).
Meanwhile, tourist expenditure for the same period in 2019 reached RM66.14 billion compared to RM61.85 billion for the same period in 2018, indicating an increase of +6.9%. The main contributors to the tourist expenditure were from Singapore (RM16.3 billion), China (RM12.8 billion), Indonesia (RM8.8 billion), Thailand (RM2.8 billion) and India (RM2.5 billion).
