Sabah : Visitors Arrival by Nationality 2008
	2008 (Preliminary)													2007		Growth % 07/08
Nationality	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total	Jan-Dec (a)	Dec (b)	(a)	(b)
ASIA	65,706	43,331	50,596	44,590	40,812	50,603	59,073	47,801	43,709	39,453	38,209	49,760	573,643	865,877	112,826	-33.8	-55.9
Brunei	5,578	2,540	8,774	3,844	5,190	10,973	5,361	4,162	4,274	3,867	2,837	8,188	65,588	79,861	24,534	-17.9	-66.6
Philippines	5,369	4,737	5,586	7,316	5,671	5,824	5,838	4,888	5,025	6,016	3,815	5,720	65,805	66,427	5,228	-0.9	9.4
Indonesia	31,055	10,081	13,106	12,396	9,794	10,359	19,536	19,570	13,087	10,746	15,481	16,536	181,747	459,985	61,081	-60.5	-72.9
Singapore	1,316	1,040	1,432	1,476	1,473	1,980	1,128	779	1,036	1,113	2,033	4,319	19,125	18,306	2,241	4.5	92.7
China & Hong Kong	6,365	10,702	10,130	6,011	5,093	6,397	9,554	7,049	7,734	6,977	5,942	5,221	87,175	77,495	6,094	12.5	-14.3
Japan	3,655	3,597	3,487	2,200	2,792	2,295	3,428	3,165	3,534	2,787	1,917	3,082	35,939	32,387	2,657	11.0	16.0
Taiwan	3,351	3,400	2,620	2,488	2,920	3,706	4,222	2,018	2,961	2,522	1,788	2,170	34,166	49,338	2,933	-30.8	-26.0
Thailand	90	147	179	337	254	136	143	79	113	207	111	87	1,883	2,385	125	-21.0	-30.4
South Korea	8,927	7,087	5,282	8,522	7,625	8,933	9,863	6,091	5,945	5,218	4,285	4,437	82,215	79,693	7,933	3.2	-44.1
Oceania	2,045	1,344	4,463	2,280	1,927	2,722	3,220	1,511	3,055	2,383	2,135	2,197	29,282	23,850	2,237	22.8	-1.8
Australia	1,812	1,224	4,142	2,046	1,695	2,405	2,787	1,350	2,706	2,086	1,880	1,938	26,071	20,859	1,951	25.0	-0.7
New Zealand	233	120	321	234	232	317	433	161	349	297	255	259	3,211	2,991	286	7.4	-9.4
Europe	4,798	4,918	7,915	6,353	5,536	5,371	6,697	4,764	4,364	5,098	5,523	6,057	67,394	56,096	6,126	20.1	-1.1
France	630	236	350	501	426	362	315	307	180	267	326	466	4,366	4,191	503	4.2	-7.4
Germany	360	389	984	581	407	327	465	313	356	436	528	524	5,670	4,041	893	40.3	-41.3
Denmark	105	309	359	198	109	148	363	76	130	138	83	152	2,170	1,852	103	17.2	47.6
Finland	61	146	76	44	33	65	44	17	82	57	58	158	841	799	63	5.3	150.8
Norway	20	53	139	36	30	33	72	31	48	30	35	50	577	328	24	75.9	108.3
Sweden	188	306	266	140	94	137	164	65	101	190	186	308	2,145	3,263	188	-34.3	63.8
UK & Ireland	2,165	2,386	4,286	3,287	2,848	2,838	3,460	2,457	2,363	2,869	2,631	2,482	34,072	27,770	2,758	22.7	-10.0
Belgium & Luxembourg	13	50	85	52	82	36	138	44	99	59	69	65	792	152	13	421.1	400.0
Italy	67	207	236	309	86	161	236	396	139	166	159	89	2,251	867	73	159.6	21.9
Netherlands	94	224	297	329	310	249	548	256	301	257	168	318	3,351	1,176	99	184.9	221.2
Russia	322	97	226	176	121	97	139	111	148	134	173	350	2,094	1,224	296	71.1	18.2
Switzerland	73	86	144	104	112	99	227	86	96	120	61	104	1,312	719	75	82.5	38.7
Others Europe	700	429	467	596	878	819	526	605	321	375	1,046	991	7,753	9,714	1,038	-20.2	-4.5
North America	1,585	1,406	2,833	1,291	1,417	1,359	1,808	988	1,109	1,563	2,033	1,971	19,363	19,909	2,809	-2.7	-29.8
U.S.A	897	857	1,694	875	937	913	1,125	617	703	1,027	1,295	1,200	12,140	12,596	1,968	-3.6	-39.0
Canada	688	549	1,139	416	480	446	683	371	406	536	738	771	7,223	7,313	841	-1.2	-8.3
Others
Others	1,657	525	859	1,003	1,301	1,135	1,004	643	587	1,041	695	1,066	11,516	21,928	2,171	-47.5	-50.9
International	75,791	51,524	66,666	55,517	50,993	61,190	71,802	55,707	52,824	49,538	48,595	61,051	701,198	987,660	126,169	-29.0	-51.6
Malaysian	112,218	116,027	129,996	121,196	142,058	142,727	130,979	147,191	123,429	122,009	136,947	174,453	1,599,230	1,490,783	165,723	7.3	5.3
Total	188,009	167,551	196,662	176,713	193,051	203,917	202,781	202,898	176,253	171,547	185,542	235,504	2,300,428	2,478,443	291,892	-7.2	-19.3
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.