1.0 Tourism Sector
Malaysian tourism industry is a major contributor in the services sector of Malaysian economy. Tourism industries become as one of main contributor to Malaysia’s incomes. The growth of tourism industry started way back in the 20th centuries. It then started from visiting friends and families and later expanded to business and leisure trip overseas. Though Malaysia contribution of travel and tourism to GDP growth fluctuated substantially in recent years, it tended to increase through 1997 - 2016 period ending at 5.2 % in 2016. Direct Travel & Tourism GDP growth is expected to accelerate to 3.8%, up from 3.1% in 2016.
The above table shown about the arrivals and receipts of tourist to Malaysia followed by year. The data shows
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The result revealed that the majority of owners/managers of small and medium hotels were male, middle-aged and older, with secondary and upper level of education, and whose prior specialisations or knowledge were not related to tourism.The owners/managers of small and medium hotels were in agreement over their weaknesses in terms of lack of knowledge and skills in running the business. At the same time, they also felt that the government should play a more proactive role in promoting the tourism …show more content…
It was interesting to find out that most of the people who visited Malaysia for medical tourism were from Middle East which was 54.9% and this was followed by people from Asia (28.6%), Africa (12%) and others (4.5%). Malaysia faced challenges to promote various medical success stories together with the services they offer to attract more foreign patients.
Moreover, Issues of Safety and Security which concern and focus on crime rates, terrorism, food safety, health issues and natural disasterin the year of 2014. For Malaysia, the image as safety and secure destination was tarnished a few years lately and new unfortunates incident in this year bring more damage to Malaysia image. Healthy issues, terrorism, Lahad Datu intrusion, repeated kidnapping and shooting in Sabah, twin airlines incident, riot and illegal demonstration and false reporting by international media brings new challenging to Malaysia.
In the year 2015, the issues raised were inadequate Infrastructural Facilities, Language Barrier and Communication Skills and lacking in practice of patriotic values becomes an issue as it is still at a moderate level, especially among the younger
Tourism has become much more prevalent in recent times, due in large part to the increasing human population of the earth and the increasing leisure time and dis...
Travel and tourism is the largest industry as it a billion dollar industry. Malaysia currently acquired their biggest achievement of securing 25.7 million tourist arrivals last year which will contribute the millions of ringgit to the economy impact.
Malaysia is a unique country in terms of population of all races. In the context of this diversity, unity of Malaysian people is absolutely essential. Malaysia is a sovereign state which is supported by a combination of the various communities. 1 Malaysia is a unique society of mutual tolerance practiced since independence cry of coloring this blessed land. Ironically, a knot of unity began to falter when there are interventions that wrongdoers have a difficult agenda. So, people should be aware of the importance of unity and the spirit of trying to conceive again united we stand tall in order to continue to grow and become a way of life. Unity is a matter of great importance to maintain the harmony and peace of the people in a safe and peaceful
Lastly, but most importantly, understanding the culture and its background provides a valuable insight and an ‘umbrella theme’ of a country. According to Geert Hofstede’s Cultural dimensions, Malaysia has one of the highest power distance index in the world, with one of the lowest uncertainty avoidance index. It is highly related to the beliefs of Islam and this creates a society where leaders have virtually ultimate power and authority, and the rules, laws, and regulations developed by those in power, reinforce their own leadership and control. It is not unusual for new leadership to arise from armed insurrection – the ultimate power, rather than from diplomatic or democratic change .
Medical tourism in its’ simplest terms refers to when a patient opts to go out the country to receive medical treatment. Often people choose this route rather than staying local due to the cheaper costs that foreign countries offer for their healthcare. Underdeveloped continents such as Asia, South America, and even Africa offer such, but who is to say that these countries are developed enough to be conducting the procedures that they do. When choosing this route of medical care, there are many major concerns that the patient must be aware of when it comes down to deciding if this route is what is best for them. The quality, aftercare, and legal actions are all things that should be thought about when it comes down to
• To be able to provide affordable airfares, at the same time promoting Malaysian hospitality and the local food.
In recent years, business tourism has become increasingly prevalent and prevailing in the tourism industry. There are large quantities of significant changes which have far-reaching implications for all consumers and suppliers of business travel such as consumption patterns, great developments in transport and communications technology, and the world´s political and economic changes related to tourism industry. All these developments have brought large effects on business travel as well as the main challenges to this sector for the coming years. Every day, tens of thousands of people are beginning or ending their business trips all around the world, while numerous conferences or exhibitions are being held globally, so business tourism is a
Cultures have been meeting and mixing in Malaysia since the very beginning of its history. More than fifteen hundred years ago a Malay kingdom in Bujang Valley welcomed traders from China and India. With the arrival of gold and silks, Buddhism and Hinduism also came to Malaysia. A thousand years later, Arab traders arrived in Malacca and brought with them the principles and practices of Islam. By the time the Portuguese arrived in Malaysia, the empire that they encountered was more cosmopolitan than their own.
The Hotel industry has become very important in the past years due to immense traveling and growth of international business. Hotel industry not only plays an important role in the life of people but as well as the economy of the country. Development and advancement in the Hotel industry have rapidly been taking place and especially since the rapid change in technology, it is very important for hotels to be promptly keeping up to date. When the hotel industry is spoken of, there are many famous hotels but one hotel company that has been outstanding in growth and other aspects of business, like in Leadership, Teamwork (Employee turnover), Motivation (Customer retention and satisfaction, Goals and objectives, (changing the way hotel business has worked), and Change within the company; structurally inside and physically outside, adding elements, like entertainment, gaming, and outdoor activities, is the Hilton Hotel Company.
Malaysia biggest problem is the environmental pollution. Although people already know how harmful these things are but they still go on. The three main pollution that happen in Malaysia are air pollution, water pollution and land pollution. Mostly pollution effect by the air conditional that release CFC’s gasses, rubbish that been thrown to the rival and open burning. All of this pollution will be link to all kind of diseases, sickness, bacteria and virus. For an example lung cancer that will happen to people cause by breathing the polluted air that been create by Malaysian themselves.
Tourism and Hospitality has developed rapidly and becoming extremely important to economy in the world. The income that several countries in the world receive from tourism industry can be reached to $1billion per year. In addition, Marketing is one of the most important factors that help and effect to tourism industry in many positive ways. Marketing evolved in the tourism industry since 1980. It promotes tourism industry by encouraging the tourists to travel at their destination with the strategy that made up to the tourist satisfaction. However, a marketing strategy does not have to be complex, in fact it should be a easily understood which ensure the advantage of marketing of the products and services to the tourist business to obtain positive
The economy can be clearly identified as the most beneficial aspect of tourism. “According to recent statistics, tourism provides about 10% of the world’s income and employs almost one tenth of the world’s workforce” (Mirbabayev, 2007). In Australia alone, Tourism contributed $87.3 billion in 2012, and employed 908,434 (7.9%) people (Kookana & Duc Pham, 2013). Tourism is “one of the most profitable and rapidly developing industries in the world” (Popushoi, 2004). Every year the number of tourists increase dramatically and consequently the revenues from tourism will increase substantially.
According to the statistics by Batir Mirbabyer (1991), tourism provided almost 10% of the world’s income and employed almost one tenth of the world’s workforce. Thus, tourism offers a good potential economic impact to the national economy. Refer on Berita Harian (2013), Malaysia triggered a record of arrivals tourists was 15.9%. It is over 6.4 million tourists in the
At the present time, one of the inseparable parts of the economic growth is considered as tourism industry. Commonly, tourism is the movement of people to other places for business or leisure purposes as well as covers their activities. Holloway and Humphreys defines that the places where tourists come and spend their money are called as “tourist destinations” in other words “receiving areas”. Many countries have been improving tourism to overcome economic difficulties since it is growing fast. The industry activities have been demonstrated a general positive trend in the economy and it has already become the inherent part of economic development. In host countries, tourism has led to such positive consequences as the improved infrastructure,
As we all know, Malaysia has more than 27 million people in 2008 and this figure is rising from time to time. This country is consists of more than 200 ethnic groups live in harmony and peaceful stay. Among the largest ethnic group is consists of Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazan -Dusun, Banjar, Iban and others. Socio-cultural diversity of Malaysia can be viewed in terms of race, social structure, language, customs and gender. Differences and socio-cultural diversity is difficult to doubt in a country like Malaysia, which is born of the multi-ethnic communities each bring socio-ethnic different cultures inherited from your grandmother-earlier ancestor.