S'pore visitor arrivals up

S'pore visitor arrivals up

SINGAPORE (Dow Jones): Visitor arrivals to Singapore jumped 12 percent in March over the same period last year, tourism officials said Wednesday.

The Singapore Tourism Board said visitor arrivals totaled 580,386 in March, with the greatest number of visitors coming from Indonesia.

Tourism from Indonesia grew 37 percent in March to 87,087 visitor arrivals. Japan was the second largest market with 84,837 visitors in March, up 5.3 percent from the previous year.

Traffic from Hong Kong, however, fell 21 percent to 19,203 arrivals as sluggish economic conditions and high unemployment depressed consumer confidence.