Tourism industry has influence to economic growth which is the size and value of a national economy is normally expressed as the total value of all goods and services. Thus, tourism industry perceived as contributed on generating foreign exchange earnings, employment and income. Moreover, the rising economic importance of the industry had been urged by the large and growing number of international tourists. However, the tourists that come to country can give some impacts and challenges face the Malaysia tourism industry.
Tourist Arrivals & Tourism Receipts to Malaysia
Year Arrivals Receipts (RM)
2013 25.72 Million 65.44 Billion
2012 25.03 Million 60.6 Billion
2011 24.71 Million 58.3 Billion
2010 24.58 Million 56.5 Billion
2009 23.65 Million 53.4 Billion
2008 22.05 Million 49.6 Billion
2007 20.97 Million 46.1 Billion
2006 17.55 Million 36.3 Billion
2005 16.43 Million 32.0 Billion
2004 15.70 Million 29.7 Billion
2003 10.58 Million 21.3 Billion
2002 13.29 Million 25.8 Billion
2001 12.78 Million 24.2 Billion
2000 10.22 Million 17.3 Billion
1999 7.93 Million 12.3 Billion
1998 5.56 Million 8.6 Billion
1995 7.5 Million 9.2 Billion
Table2: Tourist Arrivals & Tourism Receipts to Malaysia
Source: Tourism Malaysia (2014)
Tourism represents an increasingly important sector of Malaysian economy. Tourist arrivals and tourism receipts are commonly used measures in tourism industry. The tourism industry has received benefits in their growth as a result of the rapid increase in the tourism. From table1 shows about tourist arrivals and tourism receipts to Malaysia, according to Tourism Malaysia (2014) indicated that tourist arrivals increased from 7.5 million in 1995 to 7.93 million in 1999. Tourism receipts also rose from 9.2 billion in 1995 t...
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...ct (GDP) including, inbound and domestic tourism expenditure reported that the share of internal tourism consumption to GDP was 11 per cent in 2012 as compared to 10.9 per cent reported in 2011. Thus, the contribution of inbound and domestic tourism expenditure to GDP was 6.6 and 4.3 per cent respectively.
Tourism Direct Gross Domestic Product (TDGDP) is an international measure of the tourism contribution to GDP, which is generated by the value of the part of total valued including net taxes on products and imports has shown that TDGDP was 46.2 billion in 2011, increased by 49.4 in 2012 with grew 7.0 per cent and the share of TDGDP to GDP increased from 5.2 per cent in 2011 to 5.3 per cent recorded in 2011. Moreover such table also indicates that, the main contributors to the tourism industry is internal tourism consumption and also inbound tourism expenditure.
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First of all, international tourism is the backbone of the country's economic position. It provides foreign exchange earning for the destination country. When tourists come to visit the country, they usually spend foreign currency. These foreign exchange may help to accelerate the host's economic growth by adding those income to the national income and can stimulate the investment necessary to the finance growth in other economic sectors. Moreover, it creates job opportunities, both through direct employment within the tourism industry such as tour guides or managerial positions and indirect employment which is generated through other i...
Tourism is a typical activity of fashion that the public participate widely and it has grown in importance over recorded human history. Innumerable articles refer tourism as “the world’s largest industry”; policy-makers, analysts, and scholars often speak of the size of the tourism compared to that of other industries (Smith 2004: 26). These series of misleading statement, together with the mass media’s reports (out of context), make the idea that tourism is a single large industry branded into many people’s minds. However, in this essay I will demonstrate that it is a simplistic and misleading idea, which should be replaced by the plural term, “tourism industries”. Moreover, tourism is not the world’s largest industry, but largest service sector.
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