Tourism in Numbers
By Yap Jo-Yee
September 2020 STATISTICS
MALAYSIA’S TOP VISITING country is Singapore, followed by Indonesia, China and Thailand. In 2019 Malaysia received more than 10 million tourists from the city state, making up 38.9% of total visitors. Its popularity among Singaporeans is due to close proximity, tight cultural and linguistic links, and a favourable exchange rate, although tourist arrivals from the country have dropped.However, this is more than compensated by growth in tourist numbers from other countries, reflecting a growing interest in Malaysia as a holiday...
Yap Jo-Yee
is a research analyst at Penang Institute whose interests range from development issues to behavioural economics. Her latest goal is to use ggplot2 without Google’s help.
