Malaysia is a shopping paradise for many tourists


  • Travel
  • Saturday, 20 Aug 2022

A file picture from 2018 at Jonker Walk in Melaka, where tourists and locals love to visit. — Filepic

There are different reasons for going on a trip, and different types of vacations that one can plan for. One of them is a shopping holiday, something that is seeing an uptick in post-lockdown travelling trends.

According to the Department of Statistics Malaysia’s (DOSM) latest data on domestic tourism trends (2021), shopping tourism is “becoming an increasingly relevant component of the tourism value chain”. What this means is that shopping plays a major role in determining the value of a holiday destination.

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