Singapore's November visitor arrivals continue upward trend
Tourism figures continued its upward trend with visitor arrivals to Singapore registering the highest growth for the year at 8.4 per cent in November.
Singapore greeted 830,000 visitors last month - mostly from Indonesia, China and Malaysia.
The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) said the number of days tourists stayed in the country also saw its first year-on-year growth of 0.7 per cent, reaching an estimated 3.1 million days.
Average occupancy rate for the hotel industry in November was also positive at about 84 per cent, marking a 3.8 percentage point increase from the same period last year.
However, average room rate registered a decline of 15.1 per cent to S$198 last month, compared to the same period in 2008.
-News courtesy of Channel Newsasia-
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