Exploring Foreigner Arrivals in Malaysia

Analysing Foreigner Arrivals in Malaysia Using Interactive Dashboards and Big Data Analytics. Through data-driven visual exploration, this study highlights key arrival patterns and trends to support deeper understanding of Malaysia’s tourism landscape.

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Millions

Total Foreigner Arrivals

Top Countries

Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia

2020–2024

Data Coverage Period

Interactive

Visual Analytics

Research Overview

This research explores patterns and trends of foreigner arrivals in Malaysia using interactive dashboards and big data analytics to support data-driven insights.

Why This Research Matters

Key motivations behind analysing foreigner arrivals using big data analytics.

Complex Tourism Data


Tourism arrival data in Malaysia is high-volume, complex, and fragmented across multiple sources, making analysis difficult without proper structuring.

Limited Insights


Conventional reporting methods are insufficient to reveal meaningful patterns and trends hidden within large-scale tourism datasets.

Data-Driven Solution


This research transforms raw tourism data into interactive dashboards that enable structured analysis and informed decision-making.

Mission

This research aims to bridge the gap between raw tourism data and meaningful analysis by leveraging big data processing and interactive dashboards to reveal patterns, trends, and insights on foreigner arrivals in Malaysia.

The researchers of this study

Yahya Naim

Researcher

My name is Yahya Naim bin Md Rofiee, a final-year student at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Arau, Perlis, currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology (Hons.). My Final Year Project research focuses on tourist insight in Malaysia.

Big Data Processing

Apache Hive is used to clean, transform, and manage large-scale tourism datasets efficiently.

Power BI Dashboard

Interactive dashboards allow users to explore trends by year, country, and arrival type.

Insight Generation

Visual storytelling helps uncover patterns and insights from complex tourism data.