{"id":100866,"date":"2026-03-31T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/tourism-satellite-account-2000-2010-launched\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:00:00","slug":"tourism-satellite-account-2000-2010-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/tourism-satellite-account-2000-2010-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tourism Satellite Account 2000-2010&#8221; Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>&#8220;TOURISM SATELLITE ACCOUNT 2000-2010&#8221; LAUNCHED<\/strong><br \/>Malaysia is the third country in ASEAN to implement the TSA<\/p>\n<p>KUALA  LUMPUR, 10 February 2012 &#8211; Malaysia expects to earn RM3 billion a week  from tourism by 2020 by banking on an impressive track record that is  expected to take the country into the ranks of premier tourist  destinations over the next eight years.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Tourism, YB  Dato&#8217; Sri Dr Ng Yen Yen said Malaysia was expected to receive 36 million  tourists annually by then with total receipts amounting to RM168  billion.<\/p>\n<p>She said these projections were based on the increase in  tourism revenue from RM17.3 billion in 2000 to RM56.5 billion in 2010  with tourist arrivals increasing from 10.2 million to 24.6 million over  the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ng said the Malaysia Tourism Transformation  Plan 2020 (MTTP 2020:36:168) expected tourist arrivals and tourism  revenue to hit record heights by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>She said tourism currently  earned the country RM1 billion a week, making the sector the fifth  largest contributor to the national economy.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ng said Malaysia  was a leading player in international tourism, currently assuming the  ninth position in a highly-competitive field of nations.<\/p>\n<p>She said  the tourism statistics for a 10-year period from 2000 were contained in  the Tourism Satellite Account 2000-2010 (TSA), of which the Department  of Statistics Malaysia provided detailed information in relation to the  travel and tourism industry in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tourism is one of the  biggest industries nationwide both as an employer and in the economic  sense. We can now say this with confidence with the TSA,&#8221; she said at  the launching of the TSA this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ng said Malaysia was  the third country in ASEAN after Indonesia and the Philippines to  implement the TSA besides being in an exclusive club of 39 countries  worldwide which were currently using the TSA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Ministry of  Tourism will use the results of the TSA to initiate policies and  marketing strategies to turn Malaysia into the premier tourist  destinationwide worldwide,&#8217; she added.<\/p>\n<p>On the TSA, she said it  was a comprehensive and detailed study of the profile of Malaysian  tourism including the pattern of tourist expenditure, the availability  of accommodation, the operations of travel agencies, identification of  primary tourist destinations besides revenue generated by the tourism  industry and its contribution to the Malaysian economy.<\/p>\n<p>She said  the TSA allowed for a new and especially relevant statistical instrument  to analyse the economic importance of tourism vis-a-vis all the other  related activities.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It estimates the total economic and  employment impact of tourism, taking into account the proportions of  other industries that rely on tourism and travel in some way,&#8217; she  added..         \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<hr class=\"tm-date-hr\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<small><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKemaskini Terakhir : <time datetime=\"1398106977\" pubdate=\"\">22 April 2014<\/time>\t\t\t\t\t<\/small><\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;TOURISM SATELLITE ACCOUNT 2000-2010&#8221; LAUNCHEDMalaysia is the third country in ASEAN to implement the TSA KUALA LUMPUR, 10 February 2012 &#8211; Malaysia expects to earn RM3 billion a week from tourism by 2020 by banking on an impressive track record that is expected to take the country into the ranks of premier tourist destinations over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arkib-tahun-2012"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}