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14 years ago
Friday, March 5, 2010
A MRT train travels along a track in a neighbourhood in Singapore which expects to see more tourist arrivals this year. — Reuters pic
SINGAPORE, March 5 — Visitor arrivals in Singapore are expected to rise 20-30 per cent to 11.5-12.5 million this year, helped by a pickup in the global economy and the draw of the city-state’s new casinos, the government said today.Singapore Tourism Board (STB) CEO Aw Kah Peng told a tourism industry conference she expects tourism revenue to rise 41-50 per cent from 2009 to S$17.5-S$18.5 billion.
“This is hugely, hugely ambitious,” she acknowledged, but said she was hoping the final result could outperform the forecast.
In January, Singapore saw a 17.6 per cent rise in visitor arrivals from a year earlier. — Reuters
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