Sabah : Visitors Arrival by Nationality 2006
	2006													2005		Growth %
Nationality	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total	Jan - Dec (a)	Dec (b)	(a)	(b)
ASIA	53,051	49,575	47,756	48,875	47,174	50,876	54,810	61,175	52,977	50,548	53,226	73,590	643,633	671,723	69,324	-4.2	6.2
Brunei	3,907	3,602	4,971	2,693	2,721	6,585	2,581	3,248	5,704	4,434	3,330	23,688	67,464	58,544	12,253	15.2	93.3
Philippines	3,889	3,070	2,993	3,235	3,318	2,838	4,266	5,602	4,779	4,890	5,366	5,334	49,580	57,626	4,036	-14.0	32.2
Indonesia	25,218	24,146	25,595	24,964	23,667	23,445	26,367	26,231	26,140	23,884	26,574	27,405	303,636	386,189	35,257	-21.4	-22.3
Singapore	1,648	1,568	1,711	1,600	1,682	3,206	1,087	1,459	1,427	1,443	1,282	1,837	19,950	7,646	1,397	160.9	31.5
Hong Kong	3,021	2,282	2,194	2,782	2,327	1,951	3,361	3,472	1,808	1,802	1,655	2,644	29,299	25,563	2,992	14.6	-11.6
China	4,122	2,960	1,894	2,499	3,126	2,283	2,308	3,145	2,291	3,366	2,482	1,792	32,268	25,912	2,278	24.5	-21.3
Japan	3,694	3,985	3,779	2,481	2,624	2,656	2,431	3,383	3,013	2,795	2,397	2,429	35,667	32,379	3,135	10.2	-22.5
Taiwan	3,206	3,715	2,415	3,201	4,377	4,454	5,420	5,790	3,632	4,499	3,888	1,981	46,578	43,600	2,704	6.8	-26.7
Thailand	168	210	176	197	166	248	260	179	57	43	117	263	2,084	2,726	251	-23.6	4.8
South Korea	4,178	4,037	2,028	5,223	3,166	3,210	6,729	8,666	4,126	3,392	6,135	6,217	57,107	31,538	5,021	81.1	23.8
Oceania	1,736	1,302	1,546	1,651	1,257	2,310	2,015	1,896	3,058	2,714	1,425	3,124	24,034	20,349	1,529	18.1	104.3
Australia	1,460	1,018	1,271	1,358	995	1,948	1,700	1,442	2,475	2,125	1,246	2,787	19,825	17,438	1,287	13.7	116.6
New Zealand	276	284	275	293	262	362	315	454	583	589	179	337	4,209	2,911	242	44.6	39.3
Europe	3,369	3,740	3,492	4,489	3,805	2,661	4,205	4,881	4,548	4,621	3,471	4,852	48,134	43,394	3,424	10.9	41.7
France	184	222	263	446	227	198	247	441	355	518	142	253	3,496	2,389	257	46.3	-1.6
Germany	229	218	222	361	202	189	217	411	401	514	169	268	3,401	2,371	208	43.4	28.8
Denmark	33	37	40	47	222	82	232	86	242	105	245	105	1,476	563	80	162.2	31.3
Finland	107	98	104	99	96	102	95	102	51	63	45	63	1,025	1784	126	-42.5	-50.0
Norway	32	40	44	33	29	17	31	16	40	24	35	24	365	403	17	-9.4	41.2
Sweden	215	208	184	193	443	145	449	190	452	198	459	198	3,334	2817	169	18.4	17.2
UK & Ireland	1,804	1,986	1,906	2,457	1,874	1,315	2,200	2,563	2,194	2,448	1,644	2,784	25,175	25,014	1,819	0.6	53.1
Belgium & Luxembourg	13	13	27	13	12	13	12	13	12	13	12	13	166	233	11	-28.8	18.2
Italy	61	66	168	64	77	66	77	70	74	70	68	70	931	1108	117	-16.0	-40.2
Netherlands	88	85	97	81	95	92	95	94	96	98	100	98	1,119	960	100	16.6	-2.0
Russia	134	51	60	46	48	24	44	67	55	23	37	254	843	527	56	60.0	353.6
Switzerland	66	64	52	69	47	66	49	73	70	67	45	67	735	704	47	4.4	42.6
Others Europe	403	652	325	580	433	352	457	755	506	480	470	655	6,068	4521	417	34.2	57.1
North America	1,467	1,070	1,250	1,511	1,221	1,177	1,490	1,506	1,902	2,106	1,250	2,586	18,536	12,530	1,371	47.9	88.6
U.S.A	836	553	729	976	724	703	842	845	1,163	1,227	777	1,751	11,126	6,289	737	76.9	137.6
Canada	631	517	521	535	497	474	648	661	739	879	473	835	7,410	6,241	634	18.7	31.7
Others
Others	1,301	1,348	1,420	1,456	1,455	1,335	1,700	1,741	997	1,475	895	1,463	16,586	13,098	1,585	26.6	-7.7
International	60,924	57,035	55,464	57,982	54,912	58,359	64,220	71,199	63,482	61,464	60,267	85,615	750,923	761,094	77,233	-1.3	10.9
Malaysian	107,014	97,531	116,164	103,353	109,661	118,259	111,649	112,352	110,470	101,862	108,480	143,940	1,340,735	1,067,677	94,987	25.6	51.5
Total	167,938	154,566	171,628	161,335	164,573	176,618	175,869	183,551	173,952	163,326	168,747	229,555	2,091,658	1,828,771	172,220	14.4	33.3
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. (excluding International movements)