Even when we are still coping with the impacts of Covid19, Sarawak had recorded a total of 20,926 tourist arrivals in October this year and it is representing an increase of 14% over the number registered in the same month in 2020. The official tourism receipt for October this year is amounting to RM47.48 million and it is an increase of 11% over the RM42.5 million which was reported in October 2020.
When the lockdowns were imposed, there was almost zero tourist coming in. So now that we have opened our doors since October this year, we can see the number of visitors is slowing increasing. There was a total of 18,338 tourists arrivals in October last year, but from the number, the number of foreign tourist arrivals recorded a drop of 45% to 1,616 for the October period this year, versus 2,967 recorded in same month last year. I can understand the drop because there were many travel restrictions and no foreigner would want to be quarantined in a hotel room for the two weeks when travelling to state. Domestic tourists' arrivals had recorded 19,310 people in last month alone versus 15,371 registered in the same month last year. The arrivals also reflect a growth of 21% and this is a good improvement after our country had entered Phase 3 of the National Recovery Plan (NRP). We need to work together in getting things ready for the incoming tourists to come especially with proposed opening of Malaysia to foreign tourists starting 1 January next year. Hopefully they will be coming to Sarawak and we need to work with relevant authorities including Sarawak Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) and Ministry of Health (MoH) so that the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) are well in place.
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