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In the decade from 2010 to 2019, Malaysia received 257,837,243 foreign tourist arrivals that included 125,965,956, or 49 percent, from Singapore.

The US State Department has advised its citizens not to travel to Malaysia, compared to its previous advice to “reconsider travel” to the country.

Perhaps no industry has suffered as badly from the Covid-19 pandemic as tourism.

A new 3D sensor technology is utilised for the Automated Queue Management System at KLIA to manage and reduce queue wait times to under 10 minutes.

The first case of Covid-19 in Malaysia was detected on Jan 25 last year and the number rose to 22,036 on Oct 20, almost nine months later.

Tourism Malaysia posted a 78.6% drop of foreign visitor arrivals for the first nine months of this year compared to the corresponding period last year.

It is better to venture into other fields or go into suspended animation, reactivating the travel business only when tourism recovers fully in 2024.

Malaysia Airlines is offering customers subsidised airline tickets for domestic destinations in support of the government’s “green travel bubble” initiative.

Beginning today, applications to enter and exit the country for Malaysians and foreigners, during the RMCO until Dec 31, can be done via MyTravelPass.

Tapping into the largest component in domestic visitors’ expenditure.

While there was a dearth of visitors to Kuala Sala, Kuala Perlis saw huge crowds at the ferry terminal.

Controlled groups of passengers from chartered flights would be welcomed around the world.

Low-cost airline AirAsia has changed its policy on how many bags passengers can bring on board the plane for free.

The Department of Statistics released the 2019 Domestic Tourism Survey today, again right on schedule as it always had at the end of every June.

Tourism Malaysia had just released figures for foreign tourist arrivals in the first three months of this year, and it was no surprise that total numbers dropped by 36.8%.