“Target audience Grab (Mandarin) Adalah chinese dari mainland. they make up about 20% of world population yet <1% of them is proficient in english. even if just 5% of them travel here and spend rm300/pax daily malaysia would generate an income of 20.79b per day” – Kakak Twitter.
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Wow.

Kakak, RM20.79 Billion/day = RM758.8 Trillion/year.

Banyak tu.

Tapi sadly to inform,

1. The total cumulative amount on tourist spending (Tourist Receipts) for the whole year for the past 5 year adalah around RM80+ Billion per year, jauh sangat lah kiranya sifir kakak tu.

Dan Chinese from China is not the biggest contributer pun.

Almost 70% of our Tourist Receipts datangnya dari negara-negara ASEAN.

Dan kalau tengok by country pun China is not no 1. Sometimes no 2, sometime no 3 lawan-lawan dengan Indonesia.

By ranking on the spending (2017) it will be:

1. Singapore – RM36.9 Billion
2. China – RM9.07 Billion
3. Indonesia – RM8.48 Billion

[1]
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2. Chinese from China juga bukanlah the biggest tourist arrival ke Malaysia pun.

By ranking it will be:

1. Singapore ->10 juta
2. Indonesia > 3 juta
3. China < 3 juta [2]

Kalau dibandingkan dengan Thailand dan Singapura yang mana pelancong China melebihi angka 10 juta setahun dan 3.5 juta setahun. [3]
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3. Chinese from China juga are no where near the top five countries in terms of per capita spending.

Kalau ikut ranking negara, pelancong yang banyak berbelanja di Malaysia ni perkapitanya adalah,

1.Saudi Arabia – RM11,628
2. UAE – RM9,387,
3. Oman – RM8,491,
4. Iran – RM8,412
5. Kuwait – RM8,335

[3]
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So based on the numbers and figures above, I think Grab should not focus on only Grab (Mandarin), but expand it to Grab (Bahasa Indonesia), Grab (Arabic) etc etc etc ????????

Lagi satu…

Pelancong China di Thailand 2018 – 10.5 juta orang.

Pelancong China di Phuket 2018 – 2 juta orang.

Pelancong China di Singapura – 3.5 juta orang

Pelancong China di Malaysia 2018 – 2.9 juta orang

Pelancongan China di Sabah – 593 ribu orang

Grab ada di Thailand, Singapura juga, adakah mereka juga ada option GrabCar(Mandarin) di Phuket atau di Singapura?

Kalau ada maka then excuse pelancong China penyebab GrabCar(Mandarin) di Kota Kinabalu ni baru boleh diterima akal.

Kalau tak…

RUJUKAN:

[1]Malaysia Tourist Receipts:
https://www.ceicdata.com/en/malaysia/tourist-receipts

[2]Tourists Arrival – Arrivals by Country
http://mytourismdata.tourism.gov.my

[3] Cover Story: The Arabs and Chinese are back
https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/cover-story-arabs-and-chinese-are-back

[4] Thailand considers plan to give Chinese tourists visa-free entry to help boost visitor numbers. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3022040/thailand-considers-plan-give-chinese-tourists-visa-free-entry

[5] Arrivals by Country
http://mytourismdata.tourism.gov.my

[6] Sabah Tourism Statistics
https://www.sabahtourism.com/statistics/

[7] Trouble in paradise: Thailand fears decline in Chinese visitors.
https://www.ft.com/content/dc1d2d18-c32b-11e9-a8e9-296ca66511c9?fbclid=IwAR3zTFhlnUEgkoH-F0oE-desRepb96BGH1Nl7hFr7w-d9T8Btpc0-VkoB-w