Greater efforts needed to drive tourism


Malaysia must step up its efforts to promote tourism in a big way, as failure to do so will see us losing out on the all-important tourist dollar.

TWENTY-nine million!

That was the total number of tourist arrivals to Malaysia in 2023, of which some 20.1 million were foreign tourists while the balance 8.8 million were foreign excursionists or day trippers.

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