Malacca draws the crowd

A large number of tourists, with the majority from Asian nations, visit Malacca. — filepic

MALACCA: The volume of Singaporean tourists flocking to Malacca is overwhelming, making it one of the five top tourism generating areas in the Unesco Heritage City.

Out of the total 12.2 million international tourists who visited Malacca in 2015, 1.1 million or 31.27% were tourists from Singapore, followed by 711,800 from China, Indonesia (484,738), Taiwan (121,799) and 100,462 visitors from Japan.