Tourism Challenges in Singapore

The assignment examines the various challenges that Singapore faces in its thriving tourism sector. It delves into issues like traffic management due to road capacity limitations and increasing tourist numbers, the environmental impact of transportation, and the rising cost of travel affecting different income groups. The document then proposes solutions implemented by Singapore to address these challenges, such as electronic road pricing, a quota system for vehicles, and promoting water-based transport options.

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Transportation link to Tourism and Destination success
Transportation is regarded as an important part of the Tourism industry. Transportation
connects the tourists with the other tourist destinations. In many parts of the world, the tourism is
not up to the mark when compared to the country’s natural heritage(Murphy, 2013). One of the
main reasons behind this decline is that the poor growth of the development of tourism.
Transportation, which is needed for the promotion of tourism and development is the
maintenance of the roads, construction of more air transportations, rail tracks and roads. The
proper construction of local airports and operations of local flight are also needed to be done
properly. Tourism sector can grow bigger, if more betterment could be done to the transportation
system (Murphy, 2013).
In the sphere of economic system, tourism sector is considered important. In this respect,
it is impossible to think the development of tourism without the proper transportation sectors.
Whether role played by transportation is enriching the sector of tourism ultimately depends upon
the efficiency of transportation (Cooper, 2013). Transportation can transform into an important
attraction for tourists such as cruising, low cost flights, trips on boats and so forth. These are the
major examples for the attractions of tourists for the several destinations, which gives tourists the
comfort, security, benefits and competition (Hall & Page, 2012).
The important forms of transportation in Singapore are Air transportation, which is an
important form of transportation and it is increasing every day. Sea transportation is another
means of transportation in Singapore, which provides tourists with the travel opportunities.
These are the important means of transportation for tourism in Singapore (Duval, 2013). The

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Singapore’s services of bus and the availability of MRT and LRT trains are available for the
particular duration
The primary aspect for the tourist destination is the environment, cleanliness, unique
appearances and beauty which are the main components of the place’s environment and each of
them is important for creating the perfect appearances. In Singapore, in order to make a
successful destination, the transportation plays a vital role, which carries tourists to their wishful
destinations. It is being an important form of tourism by providing connections both
internationally and domestically (Duval, 2013). The location, efficiency and connectivity of
transport plays an important role while providing connection to the destination, which develops.
At the same time, the increasing number of travelers creates a number of challenges in the
context of infrastructure of transports and inters operability of the technologies with the
providers of tourism services. As the nature of tourism developing gradually, it is leaving an
impact on the types of destinations and the activities are linked to more travels. The system of
transportation and services are the heart for the attraction of tourists. The companies such as
travel management especially in the sector of travel are trying to put forward the smart travels in
order to patch up with the sustainability and the satisfaction of customers. This concept
incorporates the promotion solutions through video conferencing or decreasing the levels of the
stress of traveling.
Reducing Impact of tourism transport on environment
In Singapore, the transport by the means of air, road is on rise in response to the
increasing number that reported that the worldwide passengers rose to more than 88 million. On
this increasing of tourism is also leaving a deep impact on the air transport and water transport.

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The tourism is accounted for 60% of the population of air travel, which is responsible for the
share of the emissions in air (Buckley, 2012). Mainly the air pollution from the transportation of
tourists are leaving an impact on the global sites, leading to the increase of global warming.
Noise pollution from the different transport system such as vehicles, jet skies are the problems
for the modern life as well. This in turn leads to the stress out of annoyance and the loss of
hearing of the humans (Newsome, Moore & Dowling, 2012). Therefore, by keeping these
important issues in mind, it is important to take into account the important aspects, which are
needed to reduce the pollution in the air as well as the whole in context of the impact of terrorism
on the environment.
The bus operators are needed to be encouraged in order to reduce the impact of the
operations of bus on the quality of air, particularly inspiring the drivers to introduce a type of
vehicles having the standard emissions. Measures are needed to be taken to encourage the
service operators based on subsidized operators of service where the drivers are required to
switch off their engines whenever they are stopped for at least 1 minute. These policies are
proved to be effective in Singapore in terms of minimizing the emissions from the subsidized
services (Newsome, Moore & Dowling, 2012).
Noise, is another form of causing trouble in the transportation system and it depends
upon the using heavier vehicles for the purpose of tourism. Singapore transport provides a
double glazing which can provide an alternative ventilation. In some cases, the amount of noise
can be diminished by changing the characteristics of the flight and road surfaces, by removing
the defects of the road surfaces. A great deal of potentiality while creating a greater quality of
environments of streets which is providing the car parking.

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Another important step that can be taken is the Environmental auditing and transportation
of tourism. It is where the environment auditing is a voluntary exercise where the operators of
the tourist transport contract the services of tourism that undertakes to assess that the ways their
activities affect the environment and the ways, they can reduce the impact by creating
modifications to the existing practices to the business (Glasson, Therivel & Chadwick, 2013). It
has a stage of consideration, formulation, implementation and decision. In the consideration
stage, the legislation and the capacity of the issues regarding environment are considered. In the
stage of formulation, the policy of environment is developed. In the stage of implementation,
both proposed activities are needed to be taken into consideration. In the decision making stage,
the operations of transport are either being modified or left unchanged in pursuit of the
environmental policy.
Tourism Transport challenges in Singapore
In the year 1965, Singapore is facing the transition towards urbanization, initially
Singapore faced in terms of driving skills, infrastructure which is vital for the growth of
economy (Larsen & Guiver, 2013). The growth of economy gives birth to the opportunities
giving access to increase the load of infrastructure, which is demanding an effective mode of
transportation. If this issue is not addressed, this would further lead to the decline of economic
growth. Singapore is still going through the phases of urbanization.
The future of the tourism transport is gradually becoming critical. With the rise of
population and the development of tourism, there would be an increase in the transport system in
proportionate ways. This would give birth to the pressure on the transportation and the demand
of the population. The increasing rate of transportation would include various problems such as

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transportation of public and development of the proper roadways for the tourism transportation.
However, with the increase in population and the growth of tourism in Singapore, the various
problems are being faced by the developing cities (Meng & Pham, 2013). The first approach is to
solve the problems of traffic with the size of roads and the inculcation of the number of lanes.
However, with the growth of tourism, the increasing number of lanes cannot be accommodates
with the volumes of project of traffic. The availability of the geographical locations is one of the
biggest challenges. The low cost airlines are also changing its target market for the higher
income tourists, which is as well affecting the tourism industry, specially the people who cannot
afford much. At the same time, the continuous rise of fuel also would impact on the demand for
the tourism sector in Singapore (Meng & Pham, 2013).
In order to address these issues, Singapore needs to think of arranging some local
summits between the eminent hotels, restaurants, the components of tourism such as cities.
Singapore is looking forward to meet these challenges arising in the transportation system.
Singapore is managing the pollution made by the cars and the demands for the usages of roads in
terms of visiting local sites in Singapore is being done through the implementation of the various
types of schemes such as Electronic pricing of road, Quota system of vehicle and the certificate
of entitlement. Since the proper implementation of Vehicle Quota System (VQS), the growth of
the population caused by the road vehicles was reduced to 3% since the year 2009 (Teo &
Chang, 2012). Singapore in the year 2013, has introduced transport system on water which is
limited to the along the river of Singapore known as River taxi. The river Taxi do not causes
pollution much and it is quite healthier for the environment. To meet the demand of the growth
of tourism in Singapore, the Tourist pass of Singapore offers an unlimited passes to tourist on the
public transport to Singapore. Singapore is also thinking about increasing the low cost airlines,

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which would meet the demands of the tourist and can fly to Singapore at a cheaper rate (Teo &
Chang, 2012).

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