Wednesday, March 21, 2007

57,551 Bruneians visited M'sia in Jan

By Sunia Rina PHA

Brunei Darussalam was one of the top 10 tourist generating markets for Malaysia in January 2007.

Malaysia received about 1.583 million visitors in January, up by 8.9 per cent from a year earlier, the office of Tourism Malaysia said.

It said the top 10 tourist generating markets for the month were Singapore with 830,700 visitors; Indonesia with 151,636; Thailand with 123,634; China with 61,668; and Brunei with 57,551 visitors.

Visitor arrivals from Indonesia (52.1%), the Philippines (39%), Cambodia (66.7%), China (54.6%), South Korea (43.7%), India (41.3%), Canada (38.5%), Denmark (11.1%), Finland (17.7%), Norway (32.6%), Sweden(12.5%), the Netherlands (26.5%), Poland (25%),Germany (19.2%), Russia (24%) and France (32.9%) also recorded double digit growths.

Source: Borneo Bulletin

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