The Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) said in a statement that for quarter-on-quarter comparison, the domestic visitors went up 1.6 percent.
In terms of domestic tourism expenditure, it registered 23.8 billion ringgit (5.04 billion U.S. dollars), marking year-on-year and quarter-on-quarter increases of 29.5 percent and 18.5 percent, respectively.
Overall, Malaysia's domestic tourism performance in 2023 recorded 210.9 million visitors, an increase of 22.9 percent as compared to a year ago.
On domestic tourism expenditure, for 2023, it registered 84.9 billion ringgit, up 32.5 percent compared to last year.
However, both statistics were still below pre-pandemic levels (2019) with domestic visitors recorded -11.8 percent and expenditure on domestic tourism fell short by -17.7 percent, respectively. (1 ringgit equals 0.21 U.S. dollar)
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