UAE in Malaysia's top five tourism markets

In terms of growth, the top five markets were India at 17.1 per cent, South Korea at 16.2 per cent, the UAE at 16 per cent, Iran at 14.3 per cent and Cambodia at 12.7 per cent. On the average, tourists stayed 6.8 nights in 2010, a slight increase of 0.1 from 6.7 nights in 2009. Tourism Malaysia-Dubai records showed that Malaysia is listed as one of the top 10 countries for "Best in Travel 2010" and one of the "Best-value Destination for 2010" by the Lonely Planet. Malaysia registered 24,577,196 tourist arrivals in 2010, an increase of 3.9 per cent in 2010 as compared to 2009. Kuala Lumpur has been ranked fourth in Euromonitor International's report on Top City Destination Ranking 2009, ahead of such popular destinations such as Paris, Hong, Kong, New York City and Dubai. The city recorded 9,400,000 tourist arrivals in 2009. The report showed that while total arrivals to 100 of the world's cities fell by 3.5 per cent due to the global economic crisis, Kuala Lumpur recorded an increase of 5.2 per cent in tourist arrivals compared to the previous year.