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Recovery relies on border restrictions easing Staff Reporter © Provided by Singapore Business Review Over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the recovery of Singapore’s hotel and tourism industry still has a long way to go due to the uneven situations in different parts of the world, hindering international travel, and the relaxation of border restrictions. The tourism and hospitality sectors have been some of the hardest hit ever since the implementation of the circuit brea...

Serapong with SDC One of the best reefs nearer the mainland is found on the undisturbed shore off Serapong Golf Course at Sentosa. Today, I had a chance to share these shores with friends from Sentosa Development Corporation. I cant survey and guide at the same time. So I am grateful some volunteers could focus on surveying. Their photos are below. Thanks also to SDC for being such good sports during the walk, and for supporting our surveys through all the years! My overall sense is that there...

The One Club for Creativity announced winners of The One Show 2021 at global creative week and agencies and studios across Asia Pacific were awarded 35 Pencils, including six Golds and a Sustainable Development Goals Pencil.

Asia has scooped a total of 35 Pencils, including six Golds and a prestigious Sustainable Development Goals Pencil, in The One Show 2021, announced today during the online global Creative Week 2021.

THE story of how AJ Hackett, which invented commercial bungy jumping 30 years ago and has added thrills to the lives of four million people across the globe, went from 5% domestic business to 100% is an adventure in itself. Imagine this. Young Australian man, who ran the same park in Cairns, Australia, for nearly 20 years, moved to Singapore late 2019 to expose his family to a new world of adventure that awaited in Asia. A few months after, borders shut down and he and family are confined to ...

SINGAPORE, 16 February 2021: SingapoReimagine MICE Virtual Show, jointly organised by the Singapore Tourism Board and local MICE players is set to be hosted from 3 to 4 March 2021. The two-day event should attract around 700 participants who will join a locally curated programme that includes live-streamed cultural and leisure tours, culinary masterclasses by celebrity chefs, and a live panel discussion with industry leaders on organising pilot events in Singapore. The business networking comp...

STB and partners to showcase reimagined experiences at March virtual event launch The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) says it is expecting 700 attendees at its 3-4 March 2021 launch of SingapoReimagine MICE Virtual Show, a platform for local and international MICE players to connect. The two-day event will be part of Singapore’s efforts to catalyse the MICE industry’s recovery and generate business opportunities. It will feature live-streamed cultural and leisure tours, cul...

The autonomous buses deployed in the trial were developed by ST Engineering, while the mapping programme used to guide the vehicles was built by GPS Lands. Public transport companies SBS Transit and SMRT will operate the service routes in Jurong Island and Science Park 2, respectively. The AfA said in statement Monday that the pilot was expected to end April 30 and it would assess the findings before deciding on the next steps. "In order to gain more data and insights that will be valuable to ...

Singapore’s two integrated resorts, Marina Bay Sands (MBS) and Resorts World Sentosa, continued benefiting from brisk traffic among locals in the fourth quarter. Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, seen here. The city-state’s two casinos are on the mend, say analysts. (Image: The Straits Times) That trend, which emerged in earnest during the July through September period, is pivotal to the profitability of those gaming venues. It comes at a time when the city-state’s tourism industry is still...

/ Posted on 31 December, 2020 8:51 Emerging from the pandemic, tours and activities are becoming more intimate and digitalised, and featuring sharper storytelling, finds Anne Somanas The shift in guest touchpoints for experiences post-Covid is not just about safety; it’s about new forms of delivery, more deliberate choices by travellers and the rise of virtual and hybrid experiences that can enhance experiences even further. Heavier doses of social distancing and sanitisation, more intimate e...