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operations in the same year were Boulevard Hotel and Sunshine Hotel. The Brendma East Park Hotel opened in the beginning of 2000 but ceased operations on 31 December 2000. Room nights that were available for letting decreased by a marginal 1.0% to 10,090,788. On the other hand, gross lettings were up by 10.4%, culminating in a total of 8,420,842 room nights. Both average occupancy rate and room rate showed improvements in 2000. The average occupancy rate increased by 8.6 percentage points, from 74.9% in 1999 to 83.5% in 2000. The average room rate of all gazetted hotels in Singapore was S$127.80, an increase of 6.5% over the S$120.00 registered in 1999. 4. SALES TURNOVER OF CESSABLE ESTABLISH- MENTS Due to the significant increases in hotel room and F&B revenue, the total sales turnover of all cess-paying establishments grew by 12.2% to S$2,834.8 million. 4.1 Hotel Sector The gazetted hotels earned a total of S$1,866.8 million in revenue, up 2 F&B establishments under this section exclude those operated by hotels. Singapore Annual Report on Tourism Statistics 2000 by a strong 14.0%. This was a recovery from the decline in hotel revenue in 1999 (-2.3%). Room revenue made up 58.1% of total hotel revenue and exhibited a solid increase of 17.5%. Double-digit monthly growth in room revenue culminated in a total of S$1,085.1 million. The rest of the hotel revenue was from hotel-operated F&B establishments, which recorded a revenue of S$781.7 million (+9.5%). The number of these F&B establishments, constituting 34.1% of all cesspaying F&B establishments, increased marginally from 416 in 1999 to 417 in 2000. 4.2 F&B Sector 2 F&B establishments registered a revenue of S$968.0 million (+8.9%) in 2000. These F&B establishments totalled 807, up from the 759 establishments in 1999. 5. AIRLINES As at 1 January 2001, 53 passenger airlines operated 1,538 weekly flights into Singapore, providing a seat capacity of 398,670 seats per week. The number of incoming flights per week in 2000 was an increase of 6.4% over 1999, while the weekly seat capacity was up 9.3%.
6. CRUISE The number of ships calling in Singapore decreased from 51 ships in 1999 to 47 ships in 2000. The number of ship calls (1,213 calls) also fell by 12.5%, reflecting the drop in the number of ships. As a result, passenger throughput fell by 11.8% to 898,135 persons. 7. OUTBOUND DEPARTURES OF SINGAPORE RESIDENTS BY AIR AND SEA There were 4,443,542 outbound departures by Singapore residents in 2000, up 11.9% over 1999. Departures by air, representing 57.7% of total outbound departures, increased by 10.7%. Sea departures posted a buoyant growth of 13.6%. The peak months of outbound travel were June, November and December. Departures numbered more than 400,000 for each of the three months. 8. TOURISM RECEIPTS Tourism receipts, accounting for 22.3% of Singapore’s services exports and 3.6% of total export of goods and services, totalled S$10.4 billion in 2000. This represented an increase of 7.0%. Singapore Annual Report on Tourism Statistics 2000 EXPLANATORY NOTES 1. Source of Statistics Visitors arriving in Singapore are required to complete the prescribed disembarkation/embarkation cards, which serve as the source of statistics on visitor arrivals. The accuracy of figures pertaining to the characteristics of visitors therefore depends on how accurately visitors fill out these cards. 2. Visitor Arrivals All visitors are classified by country of residence unless otherwise stated. Total visitor arrivals include all visitors arriving by air and sea and non-Malaysian citizens arriving by land. From 1995 onwards, visitor arrivals from the ASEAN markets are recorded by individual country of residence, namely, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Lao PDR and Myanmar. Arrivals from Cambodia have also been included in ASEAN arrivals since May 1999. 3. Geographical Classification ‘CIS’ denotes The Commonwealth of Independent States, which consists of Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Russian Federation, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Moldova, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
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Page 25 and 26: Table 2 Profile of Visitor Arrivals
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Page 49 and 50: Table 21 Visitor Departures by Resi
Page 51 and 52: Table 23 Visitor Departures by Type
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Table 30 Sales Turnover of Cessable
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Singapore Annual Report on Tourism
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Table 33 Scheduled Weekly Origintin
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Table 34 Outbound Departures of Sin
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