689,000 tourists visited Singapore last month, a disappointing result which represents a 15.2 per cent fall year-on-year.
When compared to the 813,000 visitor arrivals to Singapore from February 2008, last months performance shows the significant impact the global economic crisis has had on tourism.
The February 2009 figures were also lower than the 772,000 visitors in January 2009 and 888,000 in December 2008.
The Singapore Tourism Board said that the largest number of visitors came from Indonesia (103,000), China (80,000), Australia (51,000), Britain (47,000) and Malaysia (46,000), which together accounted for 48 percent of the total visitor arrivals for the month.
Singapore’s average hotel room rate for February also decreased 20.6 per cent on-year to about S$205.
The city-states average occupancy rate (AOR) reached 76 per cent last month, down nearly 3.3 percentage points from last year.
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