Tourist Arrivals On The Rise
16 Feb 2011 2147 | World Travel News
Our Tourist Arrivals Still Lowest in ASEAN, Regarding the news 'Tourist Arrivals On The Rise',', yes our tourist arrivals may have slightly increased, to 200,000 as they reported, and claiming a 20% increase, they make it sound like a very good news....
But this is the lowest figure in ASEAN!
Last year, 1.) Malaysia tourist arrivals was 24 million, 2.) Thailand 16 million, 3.) Singapore 12 million, 4.)Indonesia 7 million, 5.) Vietnam 5 million, 6.) Philippines 3.3 million, 7.) Cambodia 2.5 million, 8.) Laos 2 million, 9.) Myanmar 0.8 million, and we 10.) Brunei 0.2 million
If they say we are a small country, Singapore is smaller than us, and if they say we have low population, Bahamas, a country slightly less populated than us, got 5 million tourist arrivals. So now not only our economy is the slowest-growing in ASEAN, our tourism too, is the weakest in ASEAN, next would be?
After all these years, what the 'Kingdom of Unexpected Treasures' has grown to become?
Source = brudirect