{"id":1605,"date":"2009-10-24T11:24:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T08:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2022-09-28T17:59:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:59:53","slug":"mauritius-foreign-currency-reserve-stands-at-2-9-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/mauritius-foreign-currency-reserve-stands-at-2-9-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauritius foreign currency reserve stands at $ 2.9 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mauritius-tourism.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1606\" title=\"Mauritius Tourism\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mauritius-tourism-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Mauritius Tourism\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>The net foreign currency reserves of Mauritius stands at US$ 2.9 billion by end August, according to a release of the Bank of Mauritius (BoM), APA learns in the Mauritian capital Port Louis on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The release indicates that the reserves represent the equivalent of 42.8 weeks of importation and has increased by US$ 500 million compared to August 2008.<\/p>\n<p>BoM also mentions the appreciation of the local currency, the Rupee in relation to major world currencies and adds that the Rupee has appreciated by some 5% against the US Dollar.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, the communiqu\u00e9 declares that the local currency has registered a high appreciation of 8% against the British Pound, but has depreciated against the Japanese Yen, the Australian Dollar and the South African Rand.<\/p>\n<p>The release revealed that revenue in the tourism sector has fallen by 17.4% during the period January-August 2009 compared to the same period of 2008 and now stands at US $ 800 million and states that Mauritius hosted 548 741 from January to August 2009 which is 9.8% less that the same period of 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The world economic downturn has had a negative effect on tourist arrivals. Likewise tourists have spent less during their stay in the island, noted the release.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The net foreign currency reserves of Mauritius stands at US$ 2.9 billion by end August, according to a release of the Bank of Mauritius (BoM), APA learns in the Mauritian capital Port Louis on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7997,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-far-east","category-sectoral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9325,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/9325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}