KUALA LUMPUR, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 10th Mar, 2021 ) :Malaysia’s international tourist arrivals in 2020 plunged 83.4 percent to 4.33 million from 26.1 million in 2019, as COVID-19 pandemic hit the tourism market.
Malaysia Tourism Promotion board or Tourism Malaysia said in a statement Wednesday that Malaysia‘s tourist receipts also plummeted 85.3 percent to 12.69 billion Ringgit (about 3.07 billion U.S. Dollars) in 2020, from 86.14 billion ringgit in 2019.
The average per capita expenditure dropped by 11.3 percent to a total of 2,928 ringgit, from 3,300 ringgit in 2019, it added.
“Negative growth had been observed for tourists from every market, namely short-haul market (-83.5 percent), medium-haul market (-84.7…