Tourism players eye upturn with new offerings for visitors

These tours boost S’pore’s value proposition as more leisure travellers are set to arrive

Zipping around town in a vintage Vespa sidecar; yacht trips to Lazarus Island; and walking tours of neighbourhoods such as Balestier and Jalan Besar.

Before Covid-19, these activities were rarely on the radar of leisure tourists, many of whom made a whirlwind two- to three-day stop in Singapore en route to Australia or other parts of South-east Asia.

But tourism players believe the past 18 months spent developing new tours, hotel packages and promotions for a discerning local market have strengthened Singapore’s value proposition as the country opens up to more international visitors under the Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) scheme.

The scheme launched last month allows quarantine-free travel for visitors from 11 countries, including Britain and the United States.