Visitors Arrival to Sabah by Nationality 2005 (Jan - Dec)
	2005													2004		Growth %
Nationality	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	June	July	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total	Year	Dec (b)	(a)	(b)
ASIA	70,948	66,743	66,660	52,770	47,086	51,533	52,759	50,796	47,604	47,994	47,506	69,324	671,723	649,721	94,676	3.4	-26.8
Brunei	5,342	3,671	7,383	3,145	2,783	9,708	3,245	2,467	3,387	1,969	3,191	12,253	58,544	72,946	21,011	-19.7	-41.7
Philippines	5,235	4,343	4,697	6,559	6,171	4,718	4,609	4,881	4,663	3,799	3,915	4,036	57,626	51,383	4,582	12.1	-11.9
Indonesia	48,888	42,915	43,670	32,907	26,245	24,692	26,799	25,026	25,334	28,141	26,315	35,257	386,189	290,147	51,438	33.1	-31.5
Singapore	578	554	637	367	518	652	592	517	580	525	729	1,397	7,646	14,847	1,075	-48.5	30.0
Hong Kong	688	1,652	1,904	988	1,661	2,501	3,219	3,079	2,463	2,470	1,946	2,992	25,563	30,513	2,744	-16.2	9.0
China	1,268	4,101	1,568	1,812	2,950	1,578	2,264	2,578	1,885	2,386	1,244	2,278	25,912	35,256	2,600	-26.5	-12.4
Japan	2,678	3,151	2,651	1,949	1,731	1,953	2,596	3,555	3,645	2,598	2,737	3,135	32,379	44,006	4,074	-26.4	-23.0
Taiwan	3,583	4,215	2,189	2,135	2,810	3,462	6,159	5,189	3,690	4,004	3,460	2,704	43,600	78,675	4,963	-44.6	-45.5
Thailand	84	165	237	448	173	154	333	160	273	218	230	251	2,726	1,831	122	48.9	105.7
South Korea	2,604	1,976	1,724	2,460	2,044	2,115	2,943	3,344	1,684	1,884	3,739	5,021	31,538	30,117	2,067	4.7	142.9
Oceania	2,534	2,119	2,252	2,049	1,087	1,279	1,628	1,269	1,557	1,769	1,277	1,529	20,349	42,281	2,877	-51.9	-46.9
Australia	2,102	1,918	2,042	1,874	942	1,093	1,368	1,032	1,303	1,418	1,059	1,287	17,438	34,454	2,375	-49.4	-45.8
New Zealand	432	201	210	175	145	186	260	237	254	351	218	242	2,911	7,827	502	-62.8	-51.8
Europe	4,411	5,769	4,559	3,387	2,876	2,773	3,592	3,517	2,894	3,298	2,894	3,424	43,394	68,276	4,842	-36.4	-29.3
France	184	211	260	273	211	151	166	200	143	194	139	257	2,389	4,285	239	-44.2	7.5
Germany	182	231	315	220	161	138	215	175	166	207	153	208	2,371	4,383	258	-45.9	-19.4
Denmark	60	68	50	41	29	24	37	80	34	27	33	80	563	2959	191	-81.0	-58.1
Finland	210	213	180	146	141	132	149	126	147	107	107	126	1,784	2539	169	-29.7	-25.4
Norway	76	55	35	41	35	22	26	17	21	26	32	17	403	2749	124	-85.3	-86.3
Sweden	294	424	420	219	190	149	175	169	186	207	215	169	2,817	4543	337	-38.0	-49.9
UK & Ireland	2,434	3,897	2,597	1,799	1,552	1,638	2,126	1,975	1,634	1,897	1,646	1,819	25,014	27,658	1,805	-9.6	0.8
Belgium & Luxembourg	26	24	44	17	19	17	20	11	18	13	13	11	233	2965	176	-92.1	-93.8
Italy	152	121	96	89	77	70	69	117	86	53	61	117	1,108	4341	253	-74.5	-53.8
Netherlands	93	99	68	74	52	54	86	100	76	70	88	100	960	3403	347	-71.8	-71.2
Russia	264	40	25	18	22	10	19	18	5	37	13	56	527	1366	164	-61.4	-65.9
Switzerland	53	83	83	66	66	47	43	47	43	60	66	47	704	1736	187	-59.4	-74.9
Others Europe	383	303	386	384	321	321	461	482	335	400	328	417	4,521	5349	592	-15.5	-29.6
North America	920	1,133	1,170	979	1,149	955	1,197	1,041	832	940	843	1,371	12,530	19,320	1,734	-35.1	-20.9
U.S.A	412	507	539	502	648	516	561	513	419	509	426	737	6,289	9,382	857	-33.0	-14.0
Canada	508	626	631	477	501	439	636	528	413	431	417	634	6,241	9,938	877	-37.2	-27.7
Others
Others	991	795	938	947	972	1,104	1,172	1,208	1,169	1,043	1,174	1,585	13,098	12,710	1,196	3.1	32.5
International	79,804	76,559	75,579	60,132	53,170	57,644	60,348	57,831	54,056	55,044	53,694	77,233	761,094	792,308	105,325	-3.9	-26.7
Malaysian	89,016	78,101	86,594	84,683	85,789	93,396	89,547	90,533	88,604	90,800	95,627	94,987	1,067,677	980,963	95,391	8.8	-0.4
Total	168,820	154,660	162,173	144,815	138,959	151,040	149,895	148,364	142,660	145,844	149,321	172,220	1,828,771	1,773,271	200,716	3.1	-14.2
Source: Immigration Dept, Sabah/ Malaysia Airlines, K.L.
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)