Tourism Benefits

AYG 2009 has definitely, more or less, boosted our inbound tourism. Most of the participants flew in from overseas. Moreover, there are supporters from their country coming over to Singapore just to support them. An event of such scale would also generate some curiosity or interests in people living outside Asia. However, I believe that the expected tourist arrivals target was not met, due to the current global economic crisis and the H1N1 virus.


References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asian_Games
http://www.ayg2009.sg/page/TheGames/TicketsandMerchandise/0,,12804~1644675,00.html