The Government of Malaysia (GOM) has adopted development plans for the different duration to enhance the
sustainable development in the country. Tourism development is one of the key element for each development
plans. GOM has been giving special emphasize on the tourism sector during the each plan period. Here we
discuss Ninth Malaysia Plan and Tenth Malaysia Plan for analyzing the tourism development. Moreover,
Malaysia has also formulated the Economic Transformation Program (ETP) in 2010 to further enhance economic
development in the country and tourism is one of the key sectors in ETP. Moreover, the paper also discusses
National Tourism Policy (NTP), National Physical Plan (NPP), and Local Agenda 21 (LA 21) to discover
tourism development perspective.