<p><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:26px;"><span style="color:#0000CD;">Singapore suffers cruise reversal</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;">Singapore: Visitors arriving in Singapore last year dropped 3.1% to 15.1m, the first decline since 2009. Cruiseship calls to Singapore dropped from 391 in 2013 to 372 in 2014, while the cruise passsenger throughput dropped from 1.03m to 890,000, according to the statistics released by the Singapore Tourism Board.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;">To boost the tourism industry this year, STB will pay more attention on major tourism markets such as China and Indonesia, and market Singapore more as a mono-destination.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;">Royal Caribbean Cruises, a leading international cruise line, is basing more ships in Singapore and six different cruiseships will be deploying from Singapore during this year. The company will have one cruiseship with a year-long deployment outbound Singapore from the second half of year.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;">STC expects the cruise throughput of this year will grow 10-15%.</span></span></p><p><br></p><div class="text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: normal;"><img data-cke-saved-src="http://www.asiacruisenews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/images/Singapore_Cruise_Centre%2C_Aug_06_600x450.JPG" src="http://www.asiacruisenews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/images/Singapore_Cruise_Centre%2C_Aug_06_600x450.JPG" alt="Singapore suffers cruise reversal " style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 390px; height: 220px; float: left; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);"></div><div class="text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>