Tourism industry generates RM197.9bil GVATI in 2021, contributes 12.8% to GDP

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s tourism industry generated RM197.9 billion of "gross value-added of tourism industries” (GVATI), contributing 12.8 per cent to the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2021, compared to 14.1 per cent in 2020, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

GVATI is the difference between total output and total intermediate consumption of the tourism industry.