Visitor arrivals up 16.1% in November

Visitor arrivals up 16.1% in November

The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) said visitor arrivals rose 16.1 per cent to reach 963,000 in November.

This is the highest number of arrivals recorded for the month of November, according to the STB. It was also the 12th consecutive month of record visitor arrivals.

STB said visitors from Indonesia (176,000), Malaysia (100,000), China (94,000), India (73,000) and Australia (64,000) accounted for 53 per cent of the arrivals and 12 out of the top 15 markets registered positive year-on-year growth.

India (+46.3 per cent), Hong Kong (+45.3 per cent), and South Korea (+41.8 per cent) registered highest growth out of the top 15 markets.

Hotel revenue was estimated at S$180 million, up by 17.6 per cent against November 2009.

-News courtesy of Channel Newsasia-