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Benefits of Aviation Malaysia 2017
Benefits of Aviation Malaysia 2017
Benefits of Aviation Malaysia 2017
TRANSPORT TO MALAYSIA
The air transport sector makes a major
contribution to the Malaysian economy
JOBS
CHAIN SPENDING
SUPPORTED BY THE
AIR TRANSPORT
SECTOR
$11
BILLION
GROSS VALUE ADDED
CONTRIBUTION
TO MALAYSIA’S
GDP IN 2014 120,000 100,000 15,000 220,000
JOBS JOBS JOBS JOBS
3.3%
GDP
SUPPORTED BY AIR
TRANSPORT & FOREIGN
TOURISTS ARRIVING
BY AIR
US $2 US $2.6 US $0.4 US $6.3
BILLION GROSS VALUE ADDED
7 10
5
8 9
3
2
1
US $250
BILLION
EXPORTS
US $140
BILLION
US $21.2 FDI
BILLION
FOREIGN The scale of investment, spent US $21.2 billion in Malaysia,
TOURIST
EXPENDITURE exports, and inbound supporting restaurants, hotels,
spending in Malaysia transport providers, and others
who cater to tourists. In addition,
Air transport brings tourists and Malaysia exported US $250 billion
investment into Malaysia, and worth of goods and services in
helps businesses trade their 2014. Over time, the country has
goods and services around the accumulated US $140 billion in
world. In 2014, foreign tourists foreign direct investment.
The importance of air transport to Malaysia
56
fastest growing countries to connect Malaysia to emerging
countries and fast growing
India 9 cities can help drive economic
Bangladesh DIRECT FLIGHT
DESTINATIONS IN
growth. There are 56 direct
Vietnam THE 10 FASTEST flight destinations among the
GROWING
Pakistan COUNTRIES ten fastest growing countries
China 14 in the world as measured by
Indonesia 19 GDP growth and 99 direct flight
Philippines destinations among the 20
Kazakhstan fastest growing countries. There
Angola are 183 direct weekly flights
Nigeria among the ten fastest growing
183
cities in the world as measured
Number of direct flights to the top ten fastest by GDP growth and over 1,800
growing cities direct weekly flights among the
DIRECT WEEKLY 100 fastest growing cities. 1
Surat
FLIGHTS TO THE
TOP 10 FASTEST
Ahmedabad GROWING Arrivals by continent
Ho Chi Minh City 70 CITIES
Hà Noi 23 Europe and Europe are the
Delhi 20 largest sources of arrivals to
Bengaluru 16 Malaysia after Asia-Pacific. In
Hyderabad (India) 8 2014, 1.5 million passengers
Kinshasa arrived to Malaysia from Europe
Dhaka 44 (2.9 percent of the total) and 1.5
Lagos million passengers arrived from
Europe (2.9 percent).
Arrivals by continent, number of passengers (000s)
1,500
270
1,500 47,800
15
200
1
Fastest growing countries are Ranked by Oxford Economics’ forecasted real GDP growth 2015-2030, with a threshold of >US $100 million GDP. Fastest growing
cities are ranked by Oxford Economics’ forecasted real GDP growth 2015-2030, with a minimum city size of 5 million.
The importance of air transport to Malaysia
1
score: 4/7
50,900
KUALA LUMPUR
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
2
5/10 KOTA KINABALU 3
INTERNATIONAL
3 6,600
PENANG INTERNATIONAL
5
1
4
Cost competitiveness
score : 9/10 3
4 4,900
KUCHING INTERNATIONAL
5 2,900
SULTAN ABDUL AZIZ SHAH
2
Entry visa requirements for a tourism visit from worldwide source markets (10 = no visa required for visitors from all source markets, 0 = traditional visa required
for visitors from every source market).
3
Based on ticket taxes, airport charges, and VAT (10=low cost, 0=high cost).
www.oxfordeconomics.com
Sources: IATA, Oxford Economics, International Monetary Fund, and national statistics.