Singapore on Saturday welcomed its 10 millionth foreign tourist of the year, celebrating a milestone for the tourism sector as it is seeking to achieve its tourism 2015 targets for receiving 17 million tourist arrivals and increasing tourism receipts to 30 billion Singapore dollars (about20.68 billion U.S. dollars).
According to Channel NewsAsia reports on Saturday night, the lucky tourist was a 36-year-old Indian, who arrived in the Changi Airport with his wife and two children to celebrate the coming Christmas Day in the city state.
The Indians were welcomed with prizes worth over 50,000 Singapore dollars (about 34,000 U.S. dollars).
Singapore's Tourism Board (STB) said on Saturday that the achievement of 10 million foreign tourists this year surpasses last year's record of 9.7 million.
Singapore is on track to achieve its tourism receipts target of13.6 billion Singapore dollars (about 9.3 billion U.S. dollars) this year.
Source: Xinhua
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