{"id":33240,"date":"2006-03-27T12:16:04","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T04:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2006\/03\/27\/chinese-mainland-becomes-second-largest-destination-for-singaporeans\/"},"modified":"2006-03-27T12:16:04","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T04:16:04","slug":"chinese-mainland-becomes-second-largest-destination-for-singaporeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2006\/03\/27\/33240\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Mainland Becomes Second Largest Destination For Singaporeans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest statistics released by National Association of Travel Agents in Singapore, the Chinese mainland has become the second largest travel destination for Singaporeans.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The top destination is Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>The data shows that in 2005 alone, up to 755,833 tourists visited the Chinese mainland, of which most people chose Shanghai and Beijing as their travel destination.<\/p>\n<p>In the past two years, Singaporean tourists to Beijing increased by 30% annually.<\/p>\n<p>Experts quoted in local media say there are two reasons that Chinese mainland is popular among Singaporean tourists.<\/p>\n<p>One is that now that most of them are overseas Chinese, they do not feel difficulty in communication when come to China.<\/p>\n<p>The second is that launching of more direct flights between the two countries offers more convenience for these tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the latest statistics released by National Association of Travel Agents in Singapore, the Chinese mainland has become the second largest travel destination for Singaporeans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}