Malaysia expects to meet its target of a record 30 million tourists this year by redirecting its marketing efforts to local and other markets as arrivals from coronavirus-hit China fall, a tourism official told Reuters on Wednesday.
The epidemic comes at a bad time, as the country is pushing its "Visit Malaysia 2020" program to rev up its stuttering economy, Southeast Asia's third-largest. Tourism accounts for 11.8 percent of Malaysia's gross domestic product, with 28 million arrivals last year, 11 percent of them from China, according to data.
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