Boost for Sabah's Tourism sector

KOTA KINABALU: The establishment of more hotels augurs well to the development of the tourism industry.

Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Haji Aman said at the launch of the Cititel Express Hotel here yesterday that this was fitting as tourism was one of the three major sectors that the State government had identified under its Development Agenda or Halatuju, to fuel its economic growth.

Last year alone, slightly more than two million visitors came to Sabah, a five per cent increase from the previous year.

And this positive trend has continued with 1.03 million net visitors’ arrivals to Sabah between January and June, this year, he said.

This signifies an increase of 0.3 per cent as compared to the same period of 2008.

“Tourism as an industry and the services sector on the whole, has grown in the last few years due to a lot of hard work on the part of the government and the private sector,” he said.

He added that the government was aware of the investment put in by the private sector, and on the government’s part, there had been a lot of investment in improving infrastructure needed for tourism, such as airports and roads.

“The recent announcement by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak that the civil service and ministries must implement the six National Key Result Areas (NKRA) and the Key Performance Index (KPI) respectively is the Government’s commitment in transforming the country, and this will in its own way have a positive impact on the services sector,” he said.

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