Singapore, Mar 22:
Singapore is focusing on increasing its hospitality infrastructure such as hotel rooms, and working on
seamless and easy visas for them, a senior tourism official said on Wednesday. Before the pandemic-
induced lockdown, Singapore had received 1.4 million tourists from India in 2019, which then recovered
to 1.1 million in 2023.
In 2024, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) expects the number to go past the 2019 strength even as it
acknowledged the potential of getting over 1.5 million visitors though it has not set any target given “the
huge tourism potential of the Indian market.”
With three offices in Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai, the STB is working on getting seamless and easy visas
for Indian tourists, Poh Chi Chuan, executive director of Exhibition & Conference at the Singapore
Tourism Board (STB) told PTI.
The island state is building infrastructure for tourists and business travellers, such as 9,000 new hotel
rooms that are being added to about 72,000 existing rooms.
“We need visitors to come and fill these rooms,” Poh underlined and hoped “The flights between India
and Singapore get back to the pre-pandemic level.”
