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Tourism has been one of the largest contributors towards Malaysian GDP over the last three decades. In essence, Malaysia generated 1,795,500 employments in 2013 of which some 6.5% of the total employment was created in the tourism sector. The study deals with extraction of tourists’ expenditure in five tourism sectors, accommodation, food and beverages, entertainment, shopping and transportation that lead to direct community benefits. Diary record survey was conducted at three different groups of selected hotels based on stars ratings- 5 & 4 stars hotel; 3,2& 1 stars hotel; and budget hotels. The total number of 1500 survey booklets was distributed, only 1000 surveys were collected. The preliminary findings suggested that tourists spent 64.7% of their expenditure for transportation and only 1.4% for shopping. On average, it was also found that actual expenditure was rated at RM172 against the budgeted …