Kota Kinabalu: Sabah recorded about 1.7 million tourist arrivals for the first nine months this year - a 14.1 per cent increase compared to the corresponding period last year which saw 1.5 million arrivals.
State Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister, Datuk Masidi Manjun, said the good news from such increase was that the figure also includes domestic tourists.
At the same time, the number of foreign tourist arrivals also rose by 24.1 per cent for the period. "Of the overall 1.7m arrivals, about 700,000 were international ones which is very good and much better compared to last year.
"And those foreign tourists are quality ones as we have quite a number from Western Europe and Australia while the number of Taiwanese, Koreans and Hong Kong tourists have been always consistent," he said after opening the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) 40th Anniversary dinner for Sabah members, Saturday.
Continue reading at: Arrivals to Sabah up first 9 months
No comments:
Post a Comment