Asia, Singapore has been expanding their tourism sector from travelling to business conventions, becoming a hub for vast array purposes. It is mentioned by Singapore Tourism Board (2016) that in June 2016, Singapore has contributed greatly in the overall expenditure of $5.4 billion in receipts and a healthy amount of 1.3 million of visitors. This shows that it plays a significant role of support in contributing in the overall economy of Singapore. 2. Current stage of development of Singapore As
say that millions of global tourists, flocking to Singapore in search of fashion, shopping, glitz and glamour hardly know the proper history of this island city-state located on the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It is a wonder, that being the smallest country in Southeast Asia, Singapore happens to be the site of several ancient port cities and a possession of several empires in its "not-so-well-known" history. To start with, when Singapore was colonized by the United Kingdom in the 19th century
However the government together with the other industries including the Singapore Tourism Board has overcome the problem when a relief package being issued to aid those affected by the SARS outbreak economic progress fall which instigated a fee rebate for airlines and cruise industry and refund property taxes for hotels and other properties. Years after the SARS outbreak disappears and visitors returned back to
development of the STB as the NTO. Singapore Tourism Board (STB), which was formally known as Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB), was formulated to increase Singapore's attractiveness to tourists. It's primary roles were to coordinate activities with tourist enterprises, enhance and develop the infrastructure and superstructure of tourist facilities and attractions, regulate policies and standards within the tourism industry, and continually market Singapore as a tourism destination. Over the years
Education Tourism: A New Perspective One possible alternative could be Education Tourism especially, overseas school trips. Singapore being one of the very few countries that is multi-racial can use this opportunity for other tourism. Singapore is known to the world for its multiracialism and STB can use this idea and offers multiracialism knowledge as the unique selling point. As quoted, “Over four-fifths of teacher who responded want to do more out of school trips and regard as amongst the most
1. Introduction Kuala Lumpur – The capital and largest city in Malaysia, which is a federal constitutional monarchy located in the Southeast Asia. Kuala Lumpur is a developed city which has the basic tourism resources and physical size about 243 square kilometres. As for 2014, Kuala Lumpur has estimated 1.73 million population made up by three ethnic groups including the Malays, the Chinese and the Indians (Department of Statistics Malaysia, 2015), it makes Kuala Lumpur become a multi-ethnic
1. Problem/Issue discussion Tourism sector is main source of foreign currency exchanges to Malaysia compare to manufacturing sector. In this article study about the last decade several events that represented the potential shocks to multinational tourist arrival to Malaysia. The problem of this article is to study whether shocks have permanent or transitory effect on tourist arrivals in Malaysia. One aspect of tourism in Malaysia that has not been considered is the effect of shocks to the time
Royal Square is a commercial development with a short walking distance to the Novena MRT Station in the Prime district 11. It is located at the junction of Thomson Road and Irrawaddy Road in Singapore. Novena has long been established as the medical Precinct for the central region of Singapore. Its legacy healthcare started more than a century ago with Tan Tock Seng Hospital taking root first in 1909. It provides a full spectrum of medical facilities including the famous National Neuroscience Institute
THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Review of Related Literature Cebu being one of the destination of local and foreign rest and recreation travelers, there is no question that its tourism industry has been increasing its number within this year. Morexette Erram a journalist from Cebu Daily News once reported, “For Cebu Provincial Tourism Office chief Boboy Costas, the numbers from DOT-7 were proof that Cebu remained as a top, favorite tourist destination in the country — for both local and foreign tourists
a tourism destination has different assets such as natural, historic-architectural, socio-cultural, gastronomic, infrastructural (sports systems, congress buildings, and so on) and their combination makes the holiday more attractive and interesting (Cernat & Gourdon, 2007). In relation to the above definition of tourism assets, East London contains a lot of municipal assets that can be used for growing tourism in the city. But these assets are inadequately and ineffectively used for tourism, such