Sabah : Visitors Arrival by Nationality 2009
	2009													2008		Growth 08/09
Nationality	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total	Jan-Dec (a)	Dec (b)	(a)	(b)
ASIA	49,315	38,769	36,017	37,111	37,370	39,265	37,397	38,813	29,845	30,503	30,532	35,247	440,184	573,643	49,760	-23.3	-29.2
Asia (Discounting P & I)	27,137	19,406	22,540	22,594	20,976	24,707	26,416	29,726	20,398	20,576	23,829	28,043	286,348	326,091	27,504	-12.2	2.0
Brunei 1	2,859	1,593	3,912	1,673	2,235	3,744	1,198	1,505	2,343	1,967	2,631	8,592	34,252	65,588	8,188	-47.8	4.9
Philippines	5,848	3,876	4,691	6,492	5,870	5,499	4,282	4,995	5,253	5,443	4,418	5,277	61,944	65,805	5,720	-5.9	-7.7
Indonesia	16,330	15,487	8,786	8,025	10,524	9,059	6,699	4,092	4,194	4,484	2,285	1,927	91,892	181,747	16,536	-49.4	-88.3
Singapore	1,722	1,582	3,736	3,257	3,245	6,077	2,963	2,909	2,881	2,718	3,410	4,448	38,948	19,125	4,319	103.6	3.0
China & Hong Kong	10,443	5,757	6,284	7,120	5,529	6,080	9,891	9,963	5,820	8,541	6,030	5,759	87,217	87,175	5,221	0.05	10.3
Japan	2,833	2,921	3,012	2,449	2,115	1,545	3,078	4,980	4,172	2,600	1,969	2,311	33,985	35,939	3,082	-5.4	-25.0
Taiwan	3,468	1,557	1,890	3,089	2,978	2,650	3,665	4,066	2,135	2,379	1,815	1,907	31,599	34,166	2,170	-7.5	-12.1
Thailand	63	151	91	231	191	174	192	133	90	106	118	66	1,606	1,883	87	-14.7	-24.1
South Korea	5,749	5,845	3,615	4,775	4,683	4,437	5,429	6,170	2,957	2,265	7,856	4,960	58,741	82,215	4,437	-28.6	11.8
Oceania	1,870	1,354	3,413	2,640	2,252	2,549	2,425	1,766	2,321	2,083	1,569	1,882	26,124	29,282	2,197	-10.8	-14.3
Australia	1,666	1,191	3,008	2,348	1,985	2,310	2,069	1,501	2,005	1,819	1,417	1,646	22,965	26,071	1,938	-11.9	-15.1
New Zealand	204	163	405	292	267	239	356	265	316	264	152	236	3,159	3,211	259	-1.6	-8.9
Europe	5,394	3,775	5,070	7,534	5,926	5,284	7,006	7,017	4,974	5,195	3,976	4,182	65,333	67,394	6,057	-3.1	-31.0
UK & Ireland	1,721	1,847	2,394	3,764	3,144	2,801	3,389	3,121	2,638	2,731	2,045	2,102	31,697	34,072	2,482	-7.0	-15.3
Germany	1,184	320	627	757	504	317	431	467	398	417	335	293	6,050	5,670	524	6.7	-44.1
France	451	168	283	573	454	283	480	530	305	332	166	220	4,245	4,366	466	-2.8	-52.8
Italy	97	134	100	266	201	170	312	887	149	102	67	73	2,558	2,251	89	13.6	-18.0
Switzerland	78	51	152	246	151	138	260	179	139	111	80	81	1,666	1,312	104	27.0	-22.1
Denmark	212	217	249	164	134	156	364	93	190	179	137	143	2,238	2,170	152	3.1	-5.9
Finland	88	101	125	53	58	58	57	42	55	56	75	104	872	841	158	3.7	-34.2
Norway	48	70	53	118	53	44	84	33	56	119	46	77	801	577	50	38.8	54.0
Sweden	277	226	208	262	115	154	197	72	109	179	199	245	2,243	2,145	308	4.6	-20.5
Belgium & Luxembourg	22	37	87	95	61	84	131	81	70	44	59	32	803	792	65	1.4	-50.8
Netherlands	187	163	241	326	341	279	533	600	366	333	254	222	3,845	3,351	318	14.7	-30.2
Russia	380	157	101	125	116	75	152	78	74	137	90	170	1,655	2,094	350	-21.0	-51.4
Others Europe	649	284	450	785	594	725	616	834	425	455	423	420	6,660	7,753	991	-14.1	-57.6
North America	1,787	1,364	2,293	2,593	1,481	1,385	1,570	1,425	1,053	1,521	1,195	1,605	19,272	19,363	1,971	-0.5	-18.6
U.S.A	853	939	1,614	1,757	980	955	1,036	900	699	1,045	818	960	12,556	12,140	1,200	3.4	-20.0
Canada	934	425	679	836	501	430	534	525	354	476	377	645	6,716	7,223	771	-7.0	-16.3
Others
Others	727	623	905	1,314	1,166	1,095	1,091	949	816	865	793	887	11,231	11,516	1,066	-2.5	-16.8
International	59,093	45,885	47,698	51,192	48,195	49,578	49,489	49,970	39,009	40,167	38,065	43,803	562,144	701,198	61,051	-19.8	-28.3
Malaysian	131,625	107,670	142,359	124,078	139,486	158,044	141,465	137,050	137,336	137,568	143,144	184,099	1,683,924	1,599,230	174,453	5.3	5.5
GRAND TOTAL (GROSS)	190,718	153,555	190,057	175,270	187,681	207,622	190,954	187,020	176,345	177,735	181,209	227,902	2,246,068	2,300,428	235,504	-2.4	-3.2
Source: MASB, Sabah / Immigration Dept, Sabah/ Malaysia Airlines/Air Asia / MASWings					1. New Data Collection method implemented by Immigration Malaysia (Feb 2008)
Prepared By Research Division For Sabah Tourism