KUALA LUMPUR, May 13 -- Malaysia recorded a new tourism milestone in the first quarter of 2026, welcoming more than 10.6 million international visitors - the highest ever for the period and the second consecutive year the country has crossed the 10 million mark in the first three months of the year.

In a statement today, Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing said Malaysia received 10,647,200 international visitors between January and March this year, a 5.4 per cent increase from the same period last year.

The figure surpassed last year's previous record of 10,102,972 arrivals by roughly half a million visitors.

Tiong noted that before the Covid-19 pandemic, Malaysia had never crossed the 10 million mark in the f...