Tourism recovery and severity of Covid-19 cases

Tourism Malaysia posted a 78.6% drop of foreign visitor arrivals for the first nine months of this year compared to the corresponding period last year. More than three months ago, I projected that total arrivals for the whole of 2020 would tumble by 83.5%.

Thanks to the Recovery MCO (RMCO) introduced in June to replace the Conditional MCO (CMCO), foreign visitor arrivals increased to 46,422 in the third quarter from 19,542 in the second quarter.