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950,000 tourists visited Singapore in June
By Mustafa Shafawi | Posted: 27 July 2010 1552 hrs
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Tourists on a tour boat ride past the Esplanade in Singapore.
SINGAPORE: Visitor arrivals registered 26.7% growth to reach 950,000 in June, the highest ever recorded for the month.
It is also the seventh consecutive month of record visitor arrivals.
The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) said visitors from Indonesia (214,000), Malaysia (93,000), India (83,000), Australia (75,000), and China (69,000) accounted for more than half (56%) of the arrivals in June.
14 out of the 15 top markets registered positive year-on-year growth in June this year.
China (+65.8%), Malaysia (+51.3%), and Hong Kong (+48.2%) registered the highest growth out of the top 15 markets.
STB said hotels' average occupancy rate posted a 12.3-percentage-point increase to reach 88 per cent.
The average room rate increased by 22.7% over June 2009 to reach an estimate of S$219 in June.
- CNA/ir