Sabah : Visitors Arrival by Nationality 2007
	2007 (Preliminary)													2006		Growth %
Nationality	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	June	July	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total	Jan - Dec (a)	Dec (b)	(a)	(b)
ASIA	53,881	59,825	64,897	55,284	55,182	64,973	72,740	75,935	77,490	86,047	86,797	112,826	865,877	643,633	73,590	34.5	53.3
Brunei	4,610	4,272	9,287	3,443	3,695	8,422	3,251	4,933	4,867	4,652	3,895	24,534	79,861	67,464	23,688	18.4	3.6
Philippines	5,359	4,588	5,694	5,820	5,771	6,021	5,621	5,591	5,694	5,593	5,447	5,228	66,427	49,580	5,334	34.0	-2.0
Indonesia	25,748	26,099	33,127	27,410	24,377	30,143	37,097	38,505	45,316	54,637	56,445	61,081	459,985	303,636	27,405	51.5	122.9
Singapore	1,111	1,071	1,234	1,398	1,796	2,224	1,376	1,449	1,505	1,322	1,579	2,241	18,306	19,950	1,837	-8.2	22.0
Hong Kong *	1,353	1,340	2,011	3,355	2,260	3,447	4,967	4,409	2,351	559	337	356	26,745	29,299	2,644	-8.7	-86.5
China *	2,124	8,176	2,511	3,053	4,074	1,395	4,230	4,465	3,617	6,069	5,298	5,738	50,750	32,268	1,792	57.3	220.2
Japan	2,952	2,685	2,811	2,292	1,974	2,367	2,854	3,870	3,159	2,408	2,358	2,657	32,387	35,667	2,429	-9.2	9.4
Taiwan	2,699	5,689	3,222	3,614	4,031	5,204	5,133	4,743	4,699	4,133	3,238	2,933	49,338	46,578	1,981	5.9	48.1
Thailand	206	221	381	451	235	183	251	99	92	93	48	125	2,385	2,084	263	14.4	-52.5
South Korea	7,719	5,684	4,619	4,448	6,969	5,567	7,960	7,871	6,190	6,581	8,152	7,933	79,693	57,107	6,217	39.6	27.6
Oceania	2,170	1,424	2,061	2,018	1,431	2,438	2,892	1,633	2,058	1,858	1,630	2,237	23,850	24,034	3,124	-0.8	-28.4
Australia	1,927	1,237	1,858	1,750	1,205	2,159	2,490	1,406	1,808	1,640	1,428	1,951	20,859	19,825	2,787	5.2	-30.0
New Zealand	243	187	203	268	226	279	402	227	250	218	202	286	2,991	4,209	337	-28.9	-15.1
Europe	5,308	5,171	4,029	4,771	3,635	4,633	4,782	4,575	3,824	4,473	4,769	6,126	56,096	48,134	4,852	16.5	26.3
France	560	798	107	465	301	181	241	215	212	261	347	503	4,191	3,496	253	19.9	98.8
Germany	220	470	436	302	199	182	282	292	222	256	287	893	4,041	3,401	268	18.8	233.2
Denmark	253	105	253	107	253	253	103	105	105	105	107	103	1,852	1,476	105	25.5	-1.9
Finland	44	63	44	55	44	165	70	63	61	63	64	63	799	1,025	63	-22.0	0.0
Norway	35	24	35	26	35	35	26	24	20	24	20	24	328	365	24	-10.1	0.0
Sweden	456	198	456	198	456	344	206	188	188	192	193	188	3,263	3,334	198	-2.1	-5.1
UK & Ireland	2,631	2,328	1,613	2,594	1,545	2,082	2,821	2,565	2,097	2,411	2,325	2,758	27,770	25,175	2,784	10.3	-0.9
Belgium & Luxembourg	12	13	12	13	12	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	152	166	13	-8.4	0.0
Italy	75	70	75	70	79	75	74	70	67	73	66	73	867	931	70	-6.9	4.3
Netherlands	99	98	99	98	99	99	99	98	94	99	95	99	1,176	1,119	98	5.1	1.0
Russia	299	47	39	83	56	10	62	108	64	85	75	296	1,224	843	254	45.2	16.5
Switzerland	39	67	39	67	39	41	63	67	73	75	74	75	719	735	67	-2.2	11.9
Others Europe	585	890	821	693	517	1,154	722	767	608	816	1,103	1,038	9,714	6,068	655	60.1	58.5
North America	1,408	2,080	1,168	1,812	1,508	1,473	1,888	1,570	1,353	1,521	1,319	2,809	19,909	18,536	2,586	7.4	8.6
U.S.A	893	1,450	737	1,134	920	919	1,094	962	846	917	756	1,968	12,596	11,126	1,751	13.2	12.4
Canada	515	630	431	678	588	554	794	608	507	604	563	841	7,313	7,410	835	-1.3	0.7
Others
Others	967	1,835	1,009	1,713	5,355	1,520	1,488	1,832	1,749	1,097	1,192	2,171	21,928	16,586	1,463	32.2	48.4
International	63,734	70,335	73,164	65,598	67,111	75,037	83,790	85,545	86,474	94,996	95,707	126,169	987,660	750,923	85,615	31.5	47.4
Malaysian	102,076	106,289	123,601	109,690	123,357	132,626	119,452	140,694	111,620	126,804	128,851	165,723	1,490,783	1,340,735	143,940	11.2	15.1
Total	165,810	176,624	196,765	175,288	190,468	207,663	203,242	226,239	198,094	221,800	224,558	291,892	2,478,443	2,091,658	229,555	18.5	27.2
Source: MASB, Sabah / Immigration Dept, Sabah/ Malaysia Airlines, K.L./Air Asia / FAX
Prepared By Research Division For Sabah Tourism
Note:	1. Direct Arrivals statistics is based on the IMM26 cards and indirect arrivals is based on the Head Count Method by the Immigration Department.
	2. Malaysian arrivals is based on movements within Malaysia. (excluding International movements)
	3. Data collection for China and Hong Kong from the month of October to December 2007is not complete, therefore figure is preliminary.