by Reinhard Hohler, Chiang Mai

International foreign inbound arrivals to eight Southeast Asia destinations have (collectively) increased by 17.5% during the months leading up to the half-year mark. All of them, except Indonesia, reported double-digit performances (see chart). With more than 26-million arrivals year-to-date, this rate of growth has added almost four million additional foreign arrivals to the inbound count for the region.

Notes:
1. Data sourced from respective NTOs/NSOs.
2. Figures in brackets refer to the number of moths for which data is available. Myanmar (5)
therefore refers to data for Myanmar for the first five months of 2011 (i.e. Jan-May).
3. Brunei, Malaysia and Timor-Leste are not included in this count because of a lack of data.