Bloomberg.com
26 Jul 2008
July 26 (Bloomberg) -- Singapore's visitor arrivals fell 4.1 percent in June, the steepest monthly decline since the SARS outbreak five years ago, as rising hotel charges deter tourists from Indonesia and Malaysia
The city-state recorded 816,000 visitors last month, from 851,000 in June 2007, the Singapore Tourism Board said in a statement yesterday. Arrivals plunged 8.2 percent in October 2003, when business and leisure travelers shunned the island because of an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome.
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