The tourists keep coming!

By Sarah George

October 2015 PENANG ECONOMIC INDICATOR
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More and more visitors are coming to Penang. Improving their mobility once they arrive is needed if Penang is to be truly accessible to its many admirers.Despite being an island, Penang today is fortunately highly accessible. According to the Penang Tourists Survey 2014 prepared by the Sustainable Tourism Research Cluster (STRC), Universiti Sains Malaysia, the facilities that Penang offers outperformed tourists’ expectations in terms of accessibility, accommodation, tourist amenities and food. Sixty-four per cent of domestic visitors and 70% of...

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Sarah George

is currently reading Economics at the University of Bristol.

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