Friday, 10 Jul 2020 08:12 PM MYT
In a statement today, it said tourist expenditure in the first quarter totalled RM12.5 billion, a 41.5 per cent decrease from the RM21.4 billion registered in the same period last year, while per capita expenditure also dropped 7.4 per cent, from RM3,201.80 in 2019 to RM2,964.50 this year. Negative growth had been observed for tourists from every regional market, namely short-haul market , medium-haul market and long-haul market in the first quarter, it added.
“However, this is a stark contrast compared to 2019, where Malaysia received 4.58 million tourists from Asean for the first quarter of the year, which translates to a decrease of 37.3 per cent from this region,” it said. Tourism Malaysia said 505,307 tourists from the long-haul market visited Malaysia in the first quarter of this year.
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