Friday, September 24, 2010

Numbers To Be "Proud" Of

From Bernama news, read here:

Souvenir sales at Shanghai’s Malaysian Pavilion reaches RM230,317

September 11, 2010
SHANGHAI, Sept 11 – Sales of souvenirs at the Malaysia Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 here reached RMB503,000 (RM230,317) over the past four months ...
According to Dr Ng, as of yesterday, the number of visitors to the Malaysia Pavilion had reached 4.715 million...

Not sure whether the reporter reported the wrong figures, or our tourism ministry gave the wrong numbers. This is definitely not something to be proud of, that you want to publish it.
4.715 million visitors, and the souvenirs sales was RM230,317 which translates to souvenir sales of less than 5 cents per visitor; or out of 20 visitors, 1 will spend RM1 on souvenir.
Oh please, use a better headline.


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