Singapore tourism bounces back

Singapore tourism bounces back

SINGAPORE: Singapore's tourism industry bounced back strongly
in April from the same month last year when the city-state was
hammered by an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, the
government said on Monday.

The wealthy Southeast Asian nation saw 651,860 arrivals in
April, more than double the figure for the previous year, when
the SARS scare was at its height, the Singapore Tourist Board
said.

April's arrivals were also 5 percent higher than the same
month in 2002, a year that was unscathed by SARS and thus
provided a better comparison, it said. -- AFP