Sabah to add 3,815 hotel rooms by 2022
Published on: Sunday, September 09, 2018
Kota Kinabalu: Sabah will add 3,815 hotel rooms to its inventory by 2022 to accommodate the rising number of tourists visiting the State.Sabah Tourism Board General Manager Suzaini Sabdin Ghani said there were currently 30,214 hotel rooms available and an additional 672 rooms would be added this year following the opening of several new hotels."That number (of rooms) grew by 6.1 percent (this year) compared with 633 in 2016," she said when briefing Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean on Sabah's tourism development here.
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Meanwhile, Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Christina Liew said Singapore is an important market for the State, with about 27,000 citizens from the republic visiting the State in 2017, a 4.5 per cent increase from that of 2016."Currently, three airlines are operating direct flights from Singapore to Kota Kinabalu International Airport — SilkAir and Malindo Air with daily flights, and AirAsia with twice daily flights," she said.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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