A recent report in Cyber Diver News
says that tourists and scuba diver numbers have fallen by almost a third
to between 300,000 and 100,000 a month. This is serious stuff for Malaysia
as tourism is the country’s second largest earner of foreign exchange.
The fall in numbers was triggered by the Bali bombing but a particularly
hard line message that sunbathers should cover up (e.g. no bikinis) has
not helped.