{"id":286922,"date":"2024-12-20T10:39:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T02:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=286922"},"modified":"2024-12-20T10:47:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T02:47:35","slug":"malaysias-domestic-tourism-surges-22-3-percent-on-year-in-third-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=286922","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia&#8217;s Domestic Tourism Surges 22.3 Percent On Year In Third Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 20 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; Malaysia&#8217;s domestic tourism experienced robust growth in the third quarter of this year, with visitors surging 22.3 percent year on year, to 66.3 million, official data showed, yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, on a quarter-on-quarter basis, the number of domestic visitors dipped by 3.2 percent, compared to the second quarter of 2024, the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Domestic tourism expenditure also showed significant growth, rising 27.4 percent year on year, to 25.6 billion ringgit (5.68 billion U.S. dollars).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite this, it saw a 9.1 percent decline compared to the second quarter of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Malaysia&#8217;s domestic tourism is one of the key economic pillars, driven by growing visitor numbers, higher expenditure, and strong performance across tourism-related industries. This growth trajectory is expected to continue, solidifying the sector&#8217;s importance to the country&#8217;s overall economic health,&#8221; the DOSM said. (1 ringgit equals 0.22 U.S. dollars)&#8211; NNN-BERNAMA &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 20 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; Malaysia&#8217;s domestic tourism experienced robust growth in the third quarter of this year, with visitors surging 22.3 percent year on year, to 66.3 million, official data showed, yesterday. However, on a quarter-on-quarter basis, the number of domestic visitors dipped by 3.2 percent, compared to the second quarter of 2024, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":286930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,300,286,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286922"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286931,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286922\/revisions\/286931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}