number of tourist arrivals for the first 2 months of 2020 contracted by 19.8% yoy across almost all nationalities with high contractions in the number of Chinese tourists which declined 44.2% yoy due to
confidence; 3.) strong tourism growth mainly from higher international tourist arrivals, especially from the ASEAN region, despite a slight decline in Chinese tourist arrivals during the second half of 2018
mainly from higher international tourist arrivals, especially from India, Japan, South Korea, the ASEAN region, and recovery in Chinese tourist arrivals as a result of an extension for visa-on-arrival fee
of 1.8 percent. Tourist arrivals from South Asia had the highest growth at 20.7 percent, followed by Southeast Asia and Africa at 5.7 percent and 1.4 percent respectively. In contrast, tourist arrivals
within the expected range 3.) strong tourism performance especially from increased foreign tourist arrivals from Malaysia, Japan, Hong Kong and India, despite having been affected by lower arrivals from
2019, the amount of tourists increased by 6.1 percent from same period last year. Tourist arrivals from South Asia region had the highest growth at 20.1 percent, followed by East Asia and Southeast Asia
merchandise categories and markets in line with a slowdown in trading partner demand. In the tourism sector, the number of tourist arrivals for the first eight months of this year contracted by 75.2% YoY. The
recovery and well-performing trading partners’ economies. Also, tourism sector robustly expanded, reflected from an increasing number of international tourist arrivals in almost every nationality especially