IHG's Garner Brand Reaches 100 Open Properties
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IHG's Garner brand hits 100 hotels globally while Wyndham's Trademark Collection tops 100 U.S. properties, as Fusion Hotel Group changes hands. Plus, more hotel deal and development news.
February brought a 9% year on year rise in visitor arrivals from abroad to Singapore. This was led by a rise of 61.3% volume growth from Mainland China. February included Lunar New Year in China with a host of countries claiming they were going to be the beneficiaries of the Chinese avoiding travel to Japan over government differences. It looks like Singapore didn't need to make a claim, they just showed the results. Of the 1.5 million February arrivals, overnight visitors to Singapore accounted for 1.11 million, up 6.2% year on year. The top five markets for city-state's inbound tourists in February were Mainland China with 432,330 and then a distant second place by Indonesia at 167,040, followed by Malaysia, Australia and South Korea far behind. Mainland China was the only one to show year over year growth. The Singapore Tourism Board said th
