Malaysia's domestic visitor expenditure soars 22.1 pct in Q1
Xinhua
19 Jun 2025, 18:45 GMT+10
KUALA LUMPUR, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Malaysia's domestic tourism expenditure for the first quarter of 2025 recorded 29.4 billion ringgit (6.9 billion U.S. dollars), an increase of 22.1 percent year-on-year, official data showed Thursday.
The Department of Statistics Malaysia said in a statement that the number of domestic visitors in Malaysia also experienced a significant surge to record 69.7 million visitors for the first quarter of 2025, rising 18.9 percent as compared to the same quarter of the previous year.
Meanwhile, for quarter-on-quarter comparison, domestic visitors went up 4.3 percent as compared to the fourth quarter of 2024. (1 ringgit equals 0.23 U.S. dollars)
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