Hopes of full recovery of tourist arrivals to pre Covid level by end of 2024
Singapore Tourism Board (STB), hosted “Deepening Connections, Achieving Together!” travel trade roadshow in Pune. As part of a five city roadshow series, STB has brought the largest ever delegation of 40 Singapore tourism stakeholders to reconnect and engage with trade partner-friends in India.
The roadshow saw a robust lineup of some of Singapore’s most prominent attractions, hotels, tour operators, cruise lines and destination management companies (DMCs).
The programme, attended by more than 180 Pune-based travel agents, was to deepen Singapore tourism’s strong partnerships and fostering new networks between tourism stakeholders and the local travel trade.
The strong turnout from both Singapore tourism trade and Pune travel agents highlighted the commitment by both sides to recover Indian visitorship to Singapore. Pre-Covid, the city had been a destination of choice for Indian travellers and with travel re-opening, it has quickly become a favourite destination again.
Renjie Wong, Area Director, India, Middle East, & South Asia, Singapore Tourism Board told media that under the Vaccinated Travel Framework (VTF), Singapore opened to quarantine-free travel to all fully-vaccinated visitors from 1st April 2022, with no testing or quarantine required. Since then, the country has received over 1.5 million visitors in the first half of 2022, which is 12 times more than it received for the same period in 2021. India has emerged as Singapore’s second largest source market, with more than 219,000 Indian visitor arrivals in the first half of the year alone, signalling a steady and optimistic path towards recovery, Wong said.
“We are hoping a full recovery of tourist arrivals to pre Covid level by end of the year 2024,” Wong said.
