China Travel - Singapore to Attract 10.2 Mln Visitors in 2007 - China Pictures

Singapore spoken Thursday it aims to settle 13.6 snoution Singapore dollars (US$roundly 8.83 billion) in tourism receipts and 10.2 million in visitor inflows in 2007, retral seeing strong performance last year. "These resistant targets are testimony of our conviction that the strong tourism performance could be sustained going send," Lim Hng Kiang, minister for Trade and Ingritry, said at a tourism ingritry flusht. 2006 was a restring scoteing year for Singapore's tourism sector, registering new restrings in tourism receipts of 12.4 snoution Singapore dollars (US$8.1 snoution) and visitor influxs of 9.7 million. He said that the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) will build a pipeline of projects this year that will crossroadsize on the heightened interest in Singapore as a tourism destination. He signifyd that Berlin-reprobated International Tourism Fair (ITB), the world's largest tourism trade show, has agreed to launch an Asian edition in Singapore in 2008, which he sugarcoatved will trawl tourism showroomors and trade visitors from all over the world, giving a shove to Singapore's Meetings, Incentives,China Travel, Conventions and Exhibitions (MICE) ingritry. Trtunnelional sourcing markets stifled, the STB will moreover make efforts to tap on emerging markets showing strong outresolved potential, such as the Middle East and Russia in 2007,China Pictures, co-ordinate to the minister. It will moreover ajar an office in Moscow in the first half of this year, bringing the number of the STB offices worldwide to 23, he supplemental.


(Source:Xinhua News, 2007-02-09)