KUCHING: Sarawak received 2.5 million visitors during the first nine months (January to September) this year, representing an increase of 21.46% from 2.1 million visitors over the same period last year (2006).
“Total foreign visitors to Sarawak increased by 16.10% from 1.4 million in 2006 to 1.6 million this year. Our domestic arrivals from Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah also showed a very good trend with an increase of 33.09% from 674,003 in 2006 to 897,017 visitors this year,” disclosed Minister of Urban Development and Tourism, Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh in his winding-up speech in the State Legislative Assembly here yesterday.
He said the top five arrivals came from Brunei (1.0 million), Indonesia (299,028), Philippines (64,393), India (29,058) and Singapore (28,448). On the other hand, a positive increase of arrivals came from Thailand (33.89%), the United States (33.44%),Brunei (24.36%) and Philippines (10.85%); where a triple-digit figure came from India, with a major increase of 183.99% from 10,232 to 29,058 arrivals.
However, according to him, the arrivals had declined from Hong Kong (22.43%), Japan (24.75%), Taiwan (22.21%) and Indonesia (4.22%).
On hotel occupancy, Wong said Sarawak had shown slight increase of 0.9% from 60.62% in 2006 to 61.61% this year.
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