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Singapore Ducktours (part of RATP Group). Visitor arrivals to Singapore has been increasing since the country's independence in 1965. [2] As compared to a total of 99,000 visitors recorded in 1965, Singapore attracted approximately 19.1 million visitors in 2019 with receipts at S$27.7 billion, according to preliminary figures by the Singapore Tourism Board.
The 1980s saw the emergence of coastal tourism as a proper economic industry in Singapore, closely supervised by the government. [4] The larger tourism industry continued to flourish, but the lack of coastal tourism had begun to place Singapore at an apparent disadvantage among its Southeast Asian neighbors. [3]
On 11 January 2005, Minister for Trade and Industry unveiled the Singapore Tourism Board’s (STB) targets to doubling visitor arrivals to 17 million by 2015. In March 2010, the STB projected a 20–30% increase in visitor arrivals for the year due to the opening of Marina Bay Sands and Resorts World Sentosa . [ 11 ]
In 2019, before the pandemic, the tourism industry contributed $8.9 trillion to GDP — that meant 10.3% of global GDP came from tourism, including 7% of the world’s total exports.
Tourism is a major industry and contributor to the Singaporean economy, attracting 13.6 million international tourists in 2023, more than double Singapore's total population. [381] Tourism contributed directly to about 3% of Singapore's GPD, on average, in the 10 years before 2023, excluding the Covid-19 pandemic years. [ 382 ]
Resorts World Sentosa, one of Singapore's biggest private sector employers, said on Wednesday it was laying off staff to cut costs as the coronavirus pandemic batters the city-state's tourism ...
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Hospitality industry in Singapore (4 C, 1 P) O. Orchard Road (40 P) R. ... Pages in category "Tourism in Singapore" The following 12 pages are in this category, out ...