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Malaysia have many cultural heritage sites that become attractions for the development of tourism and technology. This study aims to determine whether tax, exchange rate, unemployment rate, and energy use in Malaysia could affect the tourism sector. Although gross domestic product (GDP) could be used to replace human development in monitoring economic progress and human well-being in relation to tourism, this definition is narrow and focuses on the economic side, and ignores social and cultural factors. The results show that the known relationship could act as a guide for policymakers in achieving greater social and cultural development in order to encourage growth. The methodology employed in this study appears to be very useful for policymakers in developing new approaches to improving the various factors influencing Malaysia's regional and global tourism industry demand for the upcoming Visit Malaysia Year 2020. In addition, the study provided well-considered policies to increase long-term improvements in the tourism, exchange rate, and service sectors through effective resource management and intelligent resource usage in the tourism industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The growing concern of tourism performance has been widely discussed at national level. This issue is important because it reflect on the economic growth in Malaysia. Through the Tourism NKEA (National Key Economic Area), collaborative efforts between the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, other Government agencies and the private sectors are crucial to secure Malaysia's position as leading tourist destination and achieves the country's target at 36 million tourists' arrival and RM 168 billion in receipt by 2020. The target set under NKEA through the 21 National Ecotourism Action Plan. Given the importance role of tourism in the economy and the potential benefit from it, there is a need to make sure that the tourism industry remains both environmentally and economically sustainable. In ensuring sustainability of the industry, protection of cultural heritage is of foremost importance. Furthermore, sustainable heritage tourism development has become an important criterion in attracting tourist. In this sense, heritage tourism works as capable of fulling such requirements. Thus, through this research project, the establishment of new heritage model on tourist's expectation and perception such as intangible heritage, tangible heritage, tourists' spending behaviour, heritage as brand identity and tourism application will adapt to investigate tourism sector performance in Malaysia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The striking around the world transmission of COVID-19 has empowered numerous governments to meddle to maintain a strategic distance from the spread of the contamination. Medical tourism could be a developing marvel with arrangement suggestions for wellbeing frameworks, especially of goal nations. Medical tourism, a quickly developing advertise, has been recognized by numerous nations as a potential segment for financial diversification. In spite of the fact that Malaysia stands out as one of the best goals of therapeutic tourism, examination with respect to its competitiveness has been constrai ned and contract in scope. An increasing number of tourist destinations and hotels are using new technology and solutions to promote their products and services. IoT represents a great opportunity for tourism and hospitality to increase customer satisfaction while simultaneously reducing operational costs. This case ponder takes a quantitative approach to distinguish and analyze the IoT time-series data variables that position Malaysia as a competitive medical tourism goal. Based on an all-encompassing approach, this ponder has appeared that coordination of differing procedures for restorative tourism improvement with sound government arrangements and proactive administration hones has driven to significant positive results towards the shared victory of tourism and healthcare segments of Malaysia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the environmental impact of service sector growth on the tourism performance. The importance of tourism industry and the concept and dimensions of service sectors was reviewed initially and then the environmental impact of service sector in tourism was studied specifically. Upon examining the study, a yearly time series data from the period of 1995 to 2018 of Malaysia were used. Models, methods or analysis such as Descriptive Statistic Analysis, Correlation of Variables, Residual Plot, Normality Plot and regression analysis test. This empirical results proof that this outcome has demonstrated that higher mean will result higher standard deviation and vice versa. On the other hand, Correlation of Variables showed positive relationship between tourism performance and service sector growth level with all the variables. For the regression analysis the value of coefficient determined the positive relationship between those variables to the tourism performance in Malaysia. The results extracted from regression test indicated that tourism growth, all variables at level seems to be stationary a significance of 5%. Lastly, environmental impact of service sector has significant influence on tourism performance in Malaysia. Empirical findings suggest that economic policy reforms are required to channelize environmental of service sector to increase tourism performance. The governments should pull out policies on tourism, service sector and the environmental issues in order to achieve sustainable economic growth and development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Like other products, tourists purposely go through the process of arranging and decision-making in selecting the vacation goal. They massively spend their time and exertion in effectively gathering information and thoroughly assessing the elective goals some time recently the ultimate decision is being settled. Basically, the destination choice is influentially decided by attractiveness, and quality in which the sightseers see. With its intangible nature and social suggestions, in spite of the fact that the buy recurrence is low, the buy esteem is significantly high. As Thailand takes over the ASEAN chair for 2019, various prospects are opened up for hospitality linked businesses to attract visitors from ASEAN countries. The number of international tourist arrivals to Thailand in 2018 reached 38.12 million people. Tourism is one of the greatest vital sectors pouring the Thai economy, which can constantly generate great income for Thailand. Based on an all-encompassing approach, this research has exposed that integrating various strategies for tourism expansion with sound government policies and proactive management practices have led to significant positive outcomes towards mutual success of tourism sectors of Thailand. Additionally, the paper delivers considered policy to drive long-lasting enhancements in tourism sector, exchange rate and service sectors through efficient management and intelligent utilization of resources in tourism sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]