Tourist Arrival Trends
By Yeong Pey Jung
November 2022 STATISTICS
SEVERE DISRUPTIONS FROM the Covid-19 pandemic have caused Malaysia and Penang’s robust tourism industry to suffer. Deemed a major contributor towards the economy, tourism was affected greatly in terms of arrivals and revenue. Figure 1 clearly depicts the impact of the pandemic on Malaysia’s international tourist arrivals. After enjoying a slight growth of 2.3% and 1% in tourist arrivals and tourist receipts respectively in 2019, the year 2020 experienced enormous negative growth rates of -85.2% and -83.4%. It continued to...
Yeong Pey Jung
is a senior analyst with the Socioeconomics and Statistics Programme at Penang Institute. She is a reading enthusiast and is surgically attached to her Kindle.
