Singapore aims for 3M tourists
NZPA Singapore More than 1.2 million tourists visited Singapore in the first five months of this year, according to the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board. Arrivals increased 2.8 per cent over the same period last year to 1,222,583, the board said. However, there was a 1.9 per cent decline in May compared with the same month of 1984, with only 244,179 visitors this time. Singapore has been . aggressively promoting its tourist trade, its top foreign exchange earner in the 19705, with campaigns in Europe, America, Australasia and Asia. It hopes to surpass the three-million visitors mark this year as more and more new hotels enter the tourist market. Just under three million visited last year. The average hotel roomoccupancy rate was 66.3 per cent* in May, but for the coming months the rate is likely to be just 50 per cent because of new hotels.
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