Potential approaches on translating expatriates consumption behaviour of spending categories into spatial implication through second homes programmes

Abstract

Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) programme is an international residency scheme that allows the expatriates to live in Malaysia on a long stay visa up to 10 years. In the past 10 years, the programme generated about RM17 billion through receipts and spending amounts by the programme's participants. Due to their rights to own properties in the nation, their consumption behavior could spill out to the immediate business areas and gives value-added to surroundings. Thus, this paper aims to highlight the approaches on examining consumption behaviour of MM2H participants. Firstly, this paper reviewed previous researches and methods on analysing consumption behaviour, which later tabulated into spending categories. Afterwards, this paper clarified on chosen methods to translate these categories into spatial mapping, including data collection techniques. Subsequently, the spending categories are vary of 14 distinctive categories. The expenditure pattern is measured by taking into account the spending amount and spending location for each categories. From that, the categories are weighted according to its contribution, and the implication onto spatial locality context are evaluated through weighted spatial mapping analysis. This paper provides methodology on translating consumption behaviour, in relation of understdanding economic impacts at local surrounding context by foreign bodies.