The Singapore Tourism Board is working on an easy tourist visa process for Indians and is expecting over 1.5 million visitors from the country in 2024. As per reports, the country is focusing on increasing its hospitality infrastructure such as hotel rooms, and working on seamless and easy visas for them, a senior tourism official said recently. Before the pandemic-induced lockdown, Singapore had received 1.4 million tourists from India in 2019, which then recovered to 1.1 million in 2023.
In 2024, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has not set any target given the huge tourism potential of the Indian market. With three offices in Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai, the STB is working on getting seamless and easy visas for Indian tourists, Poh Chi Chuan, executive director of Exhibition & Conference at the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) told PTI.
More hotel rooms, new carriers
The island state is building infrastructure for tourists and business travellers, such as 9,000 new hotel rooms that are being added to about 72,000 existing rooms. We need visitors to come and fill these rooms, Poh underlined and hoped The flights between India and Singapore get back to the pre-pandemic level. New carriers are operating in India and once they start flying internationally, the number of tourists would increase, Poh added at a press conference.
Singapore is just not looking at the tourist traffic out of India but also business travellers given that both countries have growing trade and a prospering Indian economy, he said.
