Tourists are back, but staycations are here to stay

SINGAPORE hotels do not expect to bid farewell to demand from local guests post-pandemic – despite the pick-up in international arrivals, and the recovering popularity of overseas holidays.

Even as borders reopen, Marcus Hanna, managing director of the adjacent Swissôtel The Stamford and Fairmont Singapore hotels, told The Business Times (BT) that staycations are expected to remain important and “we’re still seeing good demand for daycations as well”.

While international guests made up 85 per cent of the properties’ reservations pre-pandemic, “the local demand has always been important to us, even pre-Covid”, Hanna said.