Visitor arrivals to S’pore drop 9.7% on—year in Nov
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SINGAPORE: Visitor arrivals to Singapore dropped again in November.
The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) says 760,000 visitors came last month, a drop of 9.7 per cent, compared to November last year.
Indonesia, China, Australia, Malaysia and India were Singapore’s top five visitor—generating markets, accounting for 49 per cent of total visitor arrivals for last month.
STB says since June this year, there has been a decline in visitor arrivals to Singapore, reflecting the continued impact of the worsening global economic slowdown on consumer sentiments.
Thus, visitor arrivals are expected to fall short of the 2008 target of 10.8 million tourists.
STB adds that it has focused its efforts to increase visitor spending during the year—end festive period.
Singapore hotels hope to generate S$161 million in room revenue, a drop of six per cent compared to November last year.
situation is going to get worse in coming mths. australia economy is also coming to a complete halt! i am not sure whether china can propel our tourism as far as i can see it from the daily CCTV news, it seem many chinese are already into saving mode as there is no angbao from govt, no social benefits!
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visitor number drop ah.
wow, this festive season is best time to earn tourist dollars.
flyer kenna big time and wow, must be loogi no can profit from this festive year end season.
i wonder visitors here will wanna take the flyer or not?
eh, next year F1 how to hold it in such bad economic climate huh?
price hikes coming?
hk liao lor. I mean go hong kong liao lor.
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STPB aint working hard enough! C'mon, no excuses! Time to earn the bacon. Where's all the 'talent'? Is this evidence of 'talents'?
We taxpayers have to work hard, prove ourselves, to keep our jobs! So isn't it true for the boys over at STPB?!
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STPB are keeping MUM now.
the PAP management style has start to filter down the statutory boards also. when times are good, the claim credit. when times are bad, they all sneak behind some spokesperson.
hotel rates are going dowm, resturant business will be affected.
the good news is that we have less foreigners working in singapore!