How Many Real Tourists (Not Whores & Freeloaders) Sg Attracts?

[makapaaa]

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</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Tourist arrivals may fall 11% <!--10 min-->
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- 4 or less paragraphs so show all paragraphs first before showing the media and bkstry and stuffs --><!-- story content : start -->SINGAPORE expects visitor arrivals to drop as much as 11 percent this year as the global recession curtails consumer spending and holiday plans, Bloomberg News reported.
<!-- story content : start -->Tourist arrivals may decline to between 9 million and 9.5 million this year, Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry S. Iswaran said in parliament today. Arrivals fell to 10.1 million in 2008, the Singapore Tourism Board has said. <!-- story content : start -->'2009 will be a difficult year for the global tourism industry,' Mr Iswaran said.

 

[singveld]

who is a tourist?
are those people who came for meetings one?
are those people who came for F1?
are those people who came for training - 1 week for multinational one too?

if so, then together with orchard towers and geylang tourists, we have 10 millions visitors.