SINGAPORE — Singapore saw just 330,000 international visitor arrivals and an estimated $1.9 billion in tourism receipts last year, a fraction of its tourism performance pre-pandemic, said the Singapore Tourism Board on Tuesday .
Nevertheless, there were "encouraging signs" of recovery in the tourism sector, with year-on-year growth in the last three quarters of 2021, STB said in a statement. This was spurred by various travel arrangements, such as Vaccinated Travel Lanes . For example, The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore launched the world’s only augmented reality hotel art tour for visitors to interact virtually with art pieces by globally-renowned artists such as Dale Chihuly and Frank Stella.The resumption of MICE events picked up pace last year, following the introduction of the Safe Business Events Framework in 2020. Singapore hosted more than 200 MICE events, with almost 50,000 local and international attendees.
STB will expand the range and scale of such lifestyle and leisure events in 2022, to meet local demand and ensure that Singapore remains attractive to international visitors such as the upcoming series of ONE Championship events.The cruise industry rebounded strongly following the start of “cruises-to-nowhere” in late 2020. Since then, more than 400,000 domestic passengers made almost 300 cruise sailings.
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