Malaysia saw more tourists coming to Malaysia in 2019


Malaysia’s tourist arrival numbers increased by 1% last year. — Filepic

Malaysia welcomed 26,100,784 international tourists last year, contributing a total of RM86.14bil in tourist receipts to the country’s economy.

The number of international tourists marked a small growth of +1.0%, compared to 25,832,354 tourist arrivals in 2018.

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