Sarawak aims for 5 million visitors, RM12.7bil in tourism revenue
KUCHING: Tourism, Creative Industry and Performing Arts Minister Datuk Seri Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah today expressed his confidence that Sarawak will achieve a target of five million visitor arrivals and to generate RM12.73 billion estimated tourism receipts for this year.
He said the target can be achieved based on the visitor arrivals of 1.6 million recorded between January and April this year.
"From January to April 2025 period, Sarawak continues to receive largenumber of visitors from Brunei (514,015) andIndonesia (236,054)," he said in his winding up speech at the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly here.
China contributes 24,865 arrivals to Sarawak, Singapore 18,637 and the Philippines 14,482, he said.
He said the visitor arrivals for the first four months of this year contributed to RM4.07 billion tourism receipts.
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