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Business travel and meetings to do heavy lifting in Singapore’s tourism recovery

Industry players await return of Chinese travellers; arrivals from other source countries have soared due to pent-up demand

    • Singapore welcomed 5.37 million international visitors in the year to end-November, up from roughly 330,000 in all of 2021.
    • Singapore welcomed 5.37 million international visitors in the year to end-November, up from roughly 330,000 in all of 2021. PHOTO: AFP
    Published Wed, Dec 14, 2022 · 05:50 AM

    SINGAPORE’S tourism industry, though not yet at pre-pandemic levels, is expected to continue its recovery into the new year.

    With leisure travel still regaining ground in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the business travel and meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (BT-Mice) segment is expected to do the heavy lifting.

    Kwee Wei-Lin, president of the Singapore Hotel Association (SHA), told The Business Times (BT) that the sector is expected to cap the year “on a positive note”.

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