Malaysia - a 2013 market snapshot and the outlook for 2014 and beyond

VMY 2014 is the 4th “Visit Malaysia Year”. The last VMY was 2007 and it registered arrivals over 21 million, an increase of approximately 20% over 2006. Recently, The Lonely Planet listed Malaysia as one of the top 10 countries to visit in 2014, the only country in Asia in the top 10 list. The government has set a target of 28 million foreign arrivals for 2014, representing an increase of approximately 8% over 2013’s target.

Asia Pacific Malaysia

Sen Soon-Mun is Director of Horwath HTL in Kuala Lumpur. Since joining the company in 2002, he has been involved in many hotel market and financial feasibility studies across Asia, including China, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Malaysia has been his main focus since 2004.

At Horwath HTL, our focus is one hundred percent on hotel, tourism and leisure consulting. Our services cover every aspect of hotel real estate, tourism and leisure development. Our clients choose us because we have earned a reputation for impartial advice that will often mean the difference between failure and success. Each project we help is different, so we need all of the experience we have gained over our 100-year history.