Malaysia among world's top 10 tourist destinations: may be UPM too can be one of tourists destination to show agriculture and garden products. UPM is known for its green and agricultural products from teaching to farming.

Kuala Lumpur (The Star/ANN) - Malaysia was one of the world's top 10 tourist destinations last year, making it the only South-East Asian country to make the list in the United Nations World Trade Organisation Tourism Highlights 2012.

In 2009, the country recorded 23.6 million tourists arrival and in 2010, the number increased to 24.6 million.

Topping the list was France with 79 million tourist arrivals, followed by United States [62 million], China [58 million], Spain [57 million], Italy [46 million], Turkey [29.3 million], United Kingdom [29.2 million] and Germany [28.4 million].
Rounding up the top 10 was Mexico with 23.4 million tourists. The report also ranked Malaysia 14th in terms of international tourism receipts with US$18.3billion (56.3 ringgit) last year, ahead of countries such as Singapore, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea and Canada. In 2009 and 2010, Malaysia recorded US$15.8 billion (48.6 billion ringgit) and US$18.2 billion.