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Singapore sees plummeted number of Chinese mainland visitors in 2020

Singapore witnessed a year-on-year nosedive of 88 percent in the number of visitor arrivals from the Chinese mainland to around 342,460 in the first three quarters of 2020, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) reported.
Singapore sees plummeted number of Chinese mainland visitors in 2020 ảnh 1The number of visitor arrivals from the Chinese mainland to Singapore dropped 88 percent in the first nine months of 2020 (Photo: AP)
Hanoi (VNA) – Singapore witnessed ayear-on-year nosedive of 88 percent in the number of visitor arrivals from theChinese mainland to around 342,460 in the first three quarters of 2020, theSingapore Tourism Board (STB) reported.

China’s Xinhua News Agency cited the STB’s dataas showing that the Chinese mainland ranked the second among sources ofinternational visitors to Singapore, following Indonesia.

According to the STB, visitors from the Chinesemainland spent some 537 million SGD (about 403.63 million USD), excludingexpenditure on sightseeing, entertainment and gaming, in the first nine monthsof last year, down 83 percent year on year.

During the period, the total internationalvisitor arrivals to the city-state dropped 81.2 percent year on year to about2.7 million, while Singapore's total tourism receipts fell by 78.4 percent toabout 4.4 billion SGD in total.

The country’s gazetted hotel room revenue forthe three quarters was 963 million SGD, a year-on-year decline of 68.8 percent.The average occupancy rate was at 55.8 percent in the period, falling by 31.4percentage points from the same period of 2019./.
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