{"id":66,"date":"2020-02-16T18:13:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T18:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2020-02-24T08:02:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T08:02:06","slug":"sabah-hit-4-million-tourists-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Sabah hit 4 million tourists in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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KOTA\nKINABALU: Hats off to Sabah tourism and all stakeholders for achieving the\ntarget of four million tourists arrival set for 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The overall record\nshows a total of 4,195,903 tourists from both domestic and international has\nvisited Sabah last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was an\nincrease of 8.2 per cent to 402,981 against 3,879,413 in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe overall\ninternational arrivals total for 2019 was 1,469,475 against 1,361,567   for last year (2018) with an increase of\n136,559 or 7.9 per cent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMalaysian\narrivals were recorded at 2,726,428 in 2019 compared to 2,517,846 in 2018, an increase\nby 266,422 or 8.3 per cent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInternational\ntourist arrivals comprised 35.02 per cent against the domestic arrivals total\nof 64.98 per cent from the total arrivals,\u201d associate and in collaboration with\nSmiths Gore Sabah, Christopher Chan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He made the\ncomment base on the data obtained from Sabah Tourism Board and Tourism\nMalaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAlthough\nChina continues to top the international arrivals throughout 2019 with the\noverall total of 598,566 compared to 593,628 in 2018, a marginal increase of 4,938 or 0.83\nper cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut, the\nsignificant arrivals from Brunei, Singapore and Korea has contributed towards\nachieving the four million target,\u201d Chan enthused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China contributed\n40.73 per cent to 598,566 of the overall international arrivals to Sabah in\n2019 to rank number one in the top 10 spots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Followed by\nSouth Korea (396,660 or 26.99 per cent); Indonesia (115,879 or 7.89 per cent);\nBrunei (78,605 or 5.35 per cent); Taiwan (45,550 or 3.1 per cent); Philippines\n(38,384 or 2.4 per cent); Singapore (34,435 or 2.34 per cent); United Kingdom\nand Ireland (29,575 or 2.01 per cent); Japan (24,435 or 1.66 per cent) and Australia\n(19,354 or 1.32 per cent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He noted the outbreak of Wuhan coronavirus have wipe out the\nstrong contributions by all the industry players including the airlines and\nvarious government agencies with their foreign counterparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYears of hard work and investments by both local and foreign\ninvestors are now halted immediately until a medical cure has been developed to\ncounter and cure this deadly virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll flights to and from China that has been our key tourism\ncontributor has been halted since the outbreak of this virus by the Sabah\nGovernment including many other countries,\u201d Chan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest report from Malaysian Associations of Hotel indicated\nthat Sabah has the most number of rooms cancelled in Malaysia, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe even overtaking Kuala Lumpur and Selangor with almost 30,000\nrooms with an earning potential of over 10 million ringgits from Jan 22 till\nFeb 29,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides that, he said tour operators and tourist guides are also struggling\nto get business and assignment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSouvenir shops and seafood restaurants are very badly hit with\nsales dipped by 80 to 90 percent according to these operators,\u201d Chan said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even potential new hotels and resorts investors have thrown\ncaution into the wind on the town of Semporna and other parts of Sabah, he\nsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He urged all the stakeholders to come up with a new action plan to\naddress this critical situation immediately as there is no medical solution\nwithin the next few months and the recovery plan after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KOTA KINABALU: Hats off to Sabah tourism and all stakeholders for achieving the target of four million tourists arrival set for 2019. The overall record shows a total of 4,195,903 tourists from both domestic and international has visited Sabah last year. It was an increase of 8.2 per cent to 402,981 against 3,879,413 in 2018….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}