Tourism Ministry keeps arrival target for Visit Malaysia 2020 despite coronavirus scare | Malay Mail

Tuesday, 28 Jan 2020 02:06 PM MYTTourism Minister Datuk Mohammadin Ketapi speaks during a special meeting and briefing session in Putrajaya January 28, 2020. ― Picture by Shafwan Zaidon

PUTRAJAYA, Jan 28 — The Tourism Ministry expressed confidence today that it could meet this year’s tourist arrival target, even as China restricts traveling to contain a novel coronavirus from spreading. Tourism Minister Datuk Mohammadin Ketapi, however, said there is a probability that the outbreak could drive the numbers down, but insisted it would be marginal.

China has over the years become a key tourism market for Malaysia. Its tourists were the third largest in foreign tourist arrival into the country last year and account for a third in tourism money receipt, official statistics showed.“The impact is small and that is just now.”

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