TY  - JOUR
T1  - The Comparison Between Indonesian and Malaysian Tourism Performance,
Policies and Sources
AU - Lubis, Zulkarnain 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 9
SP  - 1646
EP  - 1657
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2017.1646.1657
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2017.1646.1657
KW  - Tourism
KW  -Malaysia
KW  -Indonesia
KW  -economic development
KW  -employment
AB  - Indonesia and Malaysia are the two members of ASEAN and the tourism sector contributes
significantly to the economy of these two countries. These two countries have similar culture, language and
climate, even though, they are contrast in number of population, wide, ethnic, government system and
government policy on tourism. Even though these two countries have similarities but the tourism performance
is different. This study will try to investigate the comparison of tourism sector between the two countries
including performance, the competitiveness, the policies, the sources of tourism sector and contribution to the
economy of both countries. It may be concluded that Malaysia has a better competitiveness compared to
Indonesia. Furthermore, the two countries have been trying to prepare the programs and policies which are
conducive to the development of tourism sector. They have had a definite program to increase the role of
tourism to the economy each. However in implementation, Indonesia hampered by sluggish bureaucracy so that
the results could not be maximized. In terms of performance, Malaysian tourism sector is better than the
performance of Indonesian tourism sector. Nevertheless in terms of quality, Indonesia has much more appeal
than that of Malaysia, Indonesian visitors are more variation, the market diversification is much stronger and
there are more places to visit. Moreover in terms of contribution to GDP and the contribution to capital
investment, generally, Indonesia is better than Malaysia while in terms of contribution to the employment,
Malaysia tend to be better than Indonesia.
ER  -