Govt needs to tackle plateauing tourist arrivals

Wong: There has also been a derail in the last 12 months or more to promote Malaysia as a tourism destination for the world.

SINGAPORE: Tourist arrivals to Malaysia have been plateauing in the past few years and the government should take remedial measures to reverse this trend, according to Maybank Kim Eng’s regional head of institutional research Wong Chew Hann.

“We have actually seen the tourist arrival numbers flattening, in fact it was down 0.4% last year to 25.8 million people. Two things the government can do is on visas: such as implementing multiple entry visas for visitors from single entry visas presently,” Wong said in her presentation at Invest Asia 2019.