China Travel & Tourism News
|
 |
Singapore tops for attractive environment in developing tourism in Asia
|
| 13-Mar-2009 - |
www.chinaview.cn 2009-03-12 19:51:51 Print
SINGAPORE, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Singapore was the highest-ranked country in Asia for its attractive environment in developing the travel and tourism industry, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) said on Thursday.
The STB said the result came from the World Economic Forum's latest Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2009, which also ranked the city-state at the 10th place among 133 countries surveyed worldwide.
Improving six places from its overall ranking last year in the 2008 report, Singapore was placed first for its policy environment, indicating that its rules and regulations are highly conducive to the development of its travel and tourism industry, the STB said.
"We are pleased to have improved our ranking," said STB's director of strategic planning John Gregory Conceicao, adding that "it will in turn strengthen our efforts to ride out the current downturn and position ourselves for future growth."
The STB recently rolled out the Building On Opportunities to Strengthen Tourism (BOOST) initiative of a 90 million Singapore dollars (about 60 million U.S. dollars) for the tourism sector. BOOST includes measures such as "2009 Reasons to enjoy Singapore", the STB's global marketing campaign that aims to drive demand for travel to Singapore, as well as enhanced funding support for tourism businesses and training schemes to raise the skills and service excellence of tourism workers in Singapore.
The STB earlier expected that in 2009 visitor arrivals will decline to between 9 and 9.5 million, and tourism receipts will be in the range of 12 to 12.5 billion Singapore dollars (8 to 8.3 billion U.S. dollars).
Editor: Zhang Xiang |
| 13-Mar-2009 - |
Main Cities in China Travel and China Hotels
 Beijing Canton
Shanghai Hong
Kong Qingdao Hangzhou |
Other Major Cities:
Changchun,
Chengdu,
Chongqing,
Dalian,
Dongguan,
Dunhuang,
Foshan,
Guangzhou,
Guilin,
Haikou,
Harbin,
Hainan,
Hangzhou,
Kunming,
Lhasa,
Macau,
Nanjing,
Qingdao,
Sanya,
Shenyang,
Suzhou
Shanghai,
Shenzhen,
Tianjin,
Weihai,
Wenzhou,
Xiamen,
Xi'an,
Yiwu
|
Major China Hotels:
Beijing Hotels,
Chengdu Hotels,
Chongqing Hotels,
Dalian Hotels,
Foshan Hotels,
GuangZhou Hotels,
Guilin Hotels,
Hangzhou Hotels,
Harbin Hotels,
HongKong Hotels,
Kunming Hotels,
Macau Hotels,
Nanjing Hotels,
Qingdao Hotels,
Sanya Hotels,
Shanghai Hotels,
Shenyang Hotels,
Suzhou Hotels,
Tianjin Hotels,
Urumqi Hotels,
Wenzhou Hotels,
Xiamen Hotels,
Xian Hotels |
|
|
|
