Comprehensive Report on Singapore Tourism: Destinations and Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of Singapore's tourism industry. It begins with an introduction highlighting Singapore's appeal as a modern city and popular destination, emphasizing its diverse cultural blend and efficient government. The report delves into the physical geography, detailing the island's strategic location, landscape, and climate. It then explores the human geography, including demographics, language, and religion. The core of the report examines key tourist destinations such as Universal Studios, Orchard Road, Singapore Flyer, and Marina Bay Sands. The analysis covers the reasons for Singapore's tourism success, the role of tourism promoters, and the influence of the external environment. The report concludes with an overview of Singapore's economic and political aspects, providing a complete picture of the country's tourism landscape. This report is a detailed overview of Singapore's tourism industry, including its geography, demographics, and key attractions.

Asia & Tourism
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9/26/2017

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Introduction
Singapore is the modern powerhouse of a city, which is nestled within the jewel type
tropical isle. It has incomparable beauty and has even become a most popular destination for
fun seekers, nature lovers, and shopaholics. Singapore emphasizes over providing the
unrivaled local information level. The country is the pride of it and provides best facilities to
the visitors. Singapore is located in the South East Asia and includes the Singapore Island
along with 58 other islands1. The city contains the blend of Chinese, Malay, English, Indian
and Arab, along with few other religions. In the present time, Singapore has become the most
attractive destination and is referred as the modernist city in past century.
Singapore has also become popular for one of the cleanest city in the world. It also
offers the diverse tapestry, which affords the visitors with the huge range of culinary and
sightseeing options. It also includes the complete calendar of holidays and traditional
festivals, which are celebrated all-round the year, which add to the cultural appeal of the
country. Along with that Singapore provides the luxury hotels, great shopping as well as
delectable cuisine. As the country has the determined and efficient government, it has
become a more flourishing country, which has gain excel in the tourism and trade and is also
referred as the model for developing nations. The tourist visiting Singapore depicts the
remarkable enhancement between the year 2010-2012 with around 20.2% as well as 13.1%
respectively2.
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There are different reasons, which describe why this city is so famous and attractive.
Tourism promoters such as Singapore Tourism Board are effectively working. It is noted that
service suppliers have also continued to satisfy the tourist, who is visiting here. High standard
hotels, shopping malls, historic destinations, relaxing places have also appeared as well as
efficiently improved.
Nevertheless, external environment also plays a major role in controlling the
Singapore tourism. It might go stable and bring changes in every factor. Therefore, it is
important to view the strength and weakness of Singapore for analyzing it well. The study
aims to present the complete picture of Singapore like the physical geography, human
geography, and destinations for analyzing whole country. It can be mentioned that Singapore
has achieved successful tourism industry. It has also brought the best chance for improving
the picture of global friends. The tourism visiting Singapore has raised and is not stopping. In
the year 2012, visitors that arrived were around 13.5 to around 14.5 million.
Physical geography
Singapore Geography
The strategic location of Singapore, located at the Malaysian peninsula southern tip
has made sure about its significance that is higher; as compared to the size it can justify.
Singapore includes the Island of Singapore and around 63 more islands, located within the
territorial waters. The principal island is around 26 mi/42 km, situated from west to east and
23kms from north to south. This island is undulating Singapore with a low range of hills
(highest hill of 540ft, located in the northwest and is known as Bukit Timah hill).
The central business district of Singapore spread all around the southern and central
area of the island. One can easily get the best visual of the country when they move from

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Benjamin Sheares Bridge, which is constructed in East Coast Parkway that connects the city
center with the airport. The cityscape of Singapore seems to look magnificent, mainly during
night time, when the building looks brilliant. It sounds like an another city, which is all light
up, as various ships are anchored at that site, and that’s why Singapore is also referred as the
busiest seaports all over the world. The various attractions of the city is mainly clustered with
each other. It is noted that the Orchard Road, which is also known as shoppers paradise is
situated in the city center northern area. Chinatown, where one can explore the boat quay is
located at Orchard Road southeast; where else the Little India is situated in the northeast of
city. It is noted that Sentosa Island has various amusements, which is located directly to the
city center southwest area. All frequent visitors along with suburban areas usually stay
bustling with a pedestrian during evening hours.
Climate
Singapore is noted to be in the Southeast Asia equatorial monsoon area, and the
climate is divided through the high-temperature uniformity and also holds constant
precipitation all-round the year3. The average monthly temperature usually get differ from
around 27°C in June and 25°C during January4.
The regular range is higher, with an average of 7°C. The maritime location, as well as
constant humidity of Singapore, keeps the highest temperature moderate; the maximum
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temperature is recorded to around 36°C. Singapore season is explained through the rainfall
relative incidence, and this examined through the monsoon air masses movements.
The people
The Singapore population is diverse, which is also known as the outcome of past
immigration. It is noted that the predomination of China creates the 3/4th of complete. The
next highest ethnic group is of Malays, and Indians come to a third place. No key community
is homogeneous. From Chinese, there are around two-fifth, who had originated through the
Fujian province and mention about the Amoy, and Teochew is one-fourth from Shantou,
located in the Guangdong province. In whole, Chinese community mention about all the
unfathomable dialects. The variation in language is also less pronounced between the
communities of Malays, but this community covers up the people of Indonesia, who speak
Boyanese, Javanese as well as various other dialects. The group of Indians is quite different,
which includes Tamilian, Sikhs, Malayalis, and it also covers up Sinhalese as well as
Pakistani group.
Human Geography
The human geography of Singapore is mainly shaped by the fact that it’s also a city.
Singapore is both capital and country. In spite of the small nation, it is considered as one of

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the most developed countries of the planet, and there is no doubt that in Southeast Asia,
Singapore is the most developed nation.
Language and ethnic group
It is noted that is Singapore that the most sizable population is of Malay that counts to
13%; Chinese are the major population, with around 74%; Indian 9% and others are 4% that
belong to different minority communities. The country has the mixed population. In the
context of language, the official language of Singapore is Mandarin, which is spoken by 36%
of the population; next is English with 30%, and Malay counts to around 12%. Even Tamil,
Cantonese, Teochew and various other numbers for the existing languages5.
Religious
The principal religion of Singapore is Buddhism, and it’s followed by around 34% of
the population. Then next is Islam that is 14%; next is Taoism that is 11%, Christianity comes
to around 18% and other religious group counts to around 23%6.
Demographics
Singapore population is around 5.8 million, and the country comes at 114th position
in the world populated countries list. The entire population of Singapore is 100%, stay in the
urban area. The capital city of Singapore has the 5.8 million populations. According to
population growth rate index, World has 100% population, Singapore has 169% and USA
74%. The population growth of the country is around 1.9% in a year, which is more than the
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United States, which has 0.81% and this is same as the world, which is 1.1%7. Singapore
even has moderately more rate of population growth. Even the life expectancy of the country
is 85 years of age, which is considered as the upper end of the scale when compared with
other world countries.
Economy
In Singapore, around three-fourths of workers are in the service sector that comes to
around 74%. The remaining 26% of the workers are working in the manufacturing sector.
This is important to note that no one operates in the agriculture sector.
Key industries of Singapore are electronics and communication, machinery and
equipment, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food items and refined petroleum items.
Economic development
The per capita gross domestic product of Singapore comes to around $85300. It is
analyzed that per capita GDP of the country is highest all over the world. This also compares
with the global average of around $13100 and for America its $52800. It is noted that
Singapore is the highly developed country of the world8.
Political
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Singapore official name is Republic of Singapore. Singapore capital is also Singapore,
and it’s referred as a parliamentary republic. The country attained its independence in 1965
from Malaysian Federation.
Destination page
Universal Studios/Sentosa Island Singapore
Universal Studios Singapore is popularly known as a theme park, and it’s occupied or
located in around 20 hectares of Singapore Sentosa Island. Universal Studios is also known
as a second theme park of the Universal studio, which is opened in Asia. First one is open in
Japan. Just like most of the universal studios, Singapore theme park includes the theme of
Hollywood, Madagascar, Ancient Egypt, Sci-Fi, Far Away, and Lost World. This park
attracts huge tourist from all over the world, and the main tourist comes from South East
Asian region, due to the cheap cost of tickets, and the main tourist is of South East Asia, who
travel Singapore, then go to Japan and America9. This park includes around 24 main
attractions, from which 18 are mainly implemented for this park. The most interesting feature
of this park is the tallest pair of a roller coaster, and it’s known as Battlestar Galactica, which
is named after the famous television show.
Orchard Road
There is no doubt that Orchard Road is the popular tourist attraction regarding
shopping. It is a stretch in the area of 2.2 km, and it comes under the part of the central region
as well as the central business district of Singapore10. The roads of the Orchard are covered
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with different shopping areas like Wisma Atria, ION Orchard, Lucky Plaza, Ngee Ann City,
Plaza Singapura, Far East Plaza, and much more. It also includes different luxury brand,
which is made available all-round the shopping centers, located in the Orchard road, which
offers them popularity.
The pedestrian spacious road also provides people with the chance to hang out. Few
even undertake to perform, sell products and advertise it. It’s one of the famous side shops for
people and tourist, who come to Singapore. It offers $1 carts of ice cream and offers thick ice
cream slice, along with the bread and wafers selection to eat in just $111. All these types of
small attractions create the shopping center more famous. Due to the popularity of shopping
centers, it is known as an orchard, even though this road is not an Orchard road. Still, people
call it orchard.
Singapore Flyer
The biggest tourist attraction of Asia is located in Singapore that is Singapore Flyer,
which is a Giant Observation wheel, and its world largest. It’s standing tall at the height of
around 165m. This flyer was constructed as well as designed by Dr. Kisho Kurokawa,
Singapore. This flyer was launched in the year 2008 and attracts a huge crowd. The
Singapore Flyer holds the capability of holding around 784 passengers at a time; where else
every capsule holds the capacity of taking 28 people at a time. Its single revolution takes
around 30 minutes, and passengers can enjoy a 360-degree view of the city from dynamic
cityscape. From this flyer, one can easily see Changi Airport, F1 track, the city, Sentosa
Island, and various parts of the neighboring countries like Indonesia and Malaysia for free.
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Marina Bay Sands
Marina Bay Sands is the top class hotel and casino, which is the located at the
glamorous Sands Skyparks. Building dramatic design has changed into the city skyline. It
includes around 2561 rooms, celebrity chef restaurant, and mall for shoppers, museum,
floating crystal pavilions, theatres, huge convention exhibition center, ice skating rink, along
with world-class casino. Marina bay sands are the 340m huge Skypark that includes around
3900 individuals and it also includes the 150m swimming pool. It also includes various
restaurants as well as bars like KU DÈ TA, the chocolate bar, and Sky on 57, which is
popular among people12.
Gardens by the Bay
It’s the new attraction in Singapore, and it’s situated near the Marina Bay area, which
is only next to the sands, and it’s popularly known as MBS. The Garden by the Bay is the
park, which is located in around 250 acres, and includes around three waterfront gardens,
such as Bay Central Gardens, Bay South Garden, as well as Bay East Garden. The Bay South
Garden includes the Flower Dome, along with Supertrees, and Conservatories, which are the
highlighted part of the park, and much more13.
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Destination
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Known as the garden city, and lion city, Singapore is the most famous destination on
the tour of South East Asia. Therefore, if someone is thinking of going on a short holiday,
then Singapore is the best place to visit. Singapore is the best combination of Malay, Chinese,
Indian and other western people, that why it is referred as the social meeting pot. Tourist visit
here for the delicious food it offers, along with many areas to view contemporary arts and
high street shopping. Most of the tourist starts their Singapore itinerary with Chinatown,
which is a cultural heart of the city. The shops are designed with dotted mosques and
pagodas. One can take a walking tour of the area and enjoy ethnic artifacts.
For the high-end shopping, tourist prefers to go Orchard Road, where one can get
world-class brands. Along with shopping fun, Orchard road offers upmarket cafes, hotels,
pedestrian shopping centers, nightclubs, and coffee chain. Both adults and Children enjoy
Night safari, which is undertaken in the first global wildlife park, and this park can be visited
during night hours. This lush green forest is located in 40 hectares of area, with all the natural
habitats. One can easily get a trail of civets, leopards, and badgers14. From all over the world,
people visit Singapore, as there is so much to explore in this place. The tour of Sentosa Island
is another great experience.
This island is a stretch in the area of 2 km, with a wide range of attractions, sheltered
beaches and much more. It also covers up the 4D Magix, which is a four-dimensional theatre;
the underwater world, and Dolphin Lagoon. It is worth to visit this place due to the Tiger Sky
Tower, which offers the panoramic view of the insect kingdom, which is the house of
thousands of species. If someone is visiting Singapore, then they cannot miss the chance of
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going to Universal Studios, as it’s the world of movies and rides. A tourist enjoys the state of
the art rides in their favorite Hollywood themes which include Madagascar, Shrek, and
Revenge of the Mummy, Jurassic Park, Transformers, and revenge of the Mummy15.
The universal studios include many restaurants as well as food courts, where tourist
can enjoy the best food. Visitors also benefit from the gardens of the bay, which is the
futuristic and huge park, located in the Singapore bay area. There are various greenhouses,
which look similar to the UFOs from fantastic art piece. It also includes various trees and
plant to be discovered by visitors. Apart from shopping malls, delicious food, Singapore also
offers the natural beauty to the tourist. At one side it offers the enjoyment of forest, and on
the other hand, it offers the beach view to the visitors16. Each year a large number of tourists
come here to enjoy the city that offers so many destinations. Both adults and children enjoy
so many things, which offer a great learning experience to them.
Tourist
Singapore tourism is the key industry as well as it highly contributes to the economy
of Singapore, and it even attracts around 300378921 global tourists in the year 2016, which is
more than five times of the Singapore total population. The country is environment-friendly
and tries to maintain the heritage and nature conservation programs. It also provides the
lowest crime rate all over the world. Of Singapore English is the dominant language among
the four official languages of the country, which makes things easier for the tourist to easily
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understand, while speaking to the country local population, such as while doing shopping.
Singapore transport exhaustively includes most of the things, and in case it doesn’t do so at
the public venues, then it can enhance the tourist convenience. It also includes the modern
mass rapid transit system.
The tourism and travel competitiveness report 2015 has given 11th rank to Singapore
among the 141countries of the world. This rank is the second best rank in Asia, and
Singapore is only behind Japan, who holds the 9th position. The report creates the business
environment, tourism policy, and travel, global openness, along with conditions that look best
in the worked and can be considered in gaining top rank. Nevertheless, the island nation is
low in the cultural and natural resources sub-index, and it’s ranked at 40th.
The district of Orchard road that is highly dominated by the hotels and multi-story
shopping centers can consider the Singapore center of tourism. There are various famous
tourist attractions, which includes the Night Safari, Singapore zoo as well as river Safari that
permits the people to easily explore the American, Asian and African habitats during night
time, without having any visible barriers among the wild animals and guest. The Singapore
zoo has also implemented the open zoo concept, through which animals are kept in the
enclosures, which is separated from the visitors through the wet moats and hidden dry
ditches, instead of putti the animals in a cage. River safari features around ten variant
ecosystems all over the world, such as Amazon, River Nile, Yangtze River, along with
Tundra and many more around 300 animal species, such as various endangered species.
Singapore attracts around 15085152 visitors in the year 2014 as per the statistics of
Singapore Tourism board, but at the same time, it excludes the Malaysian visitors, which
comes at Singapore through Causeway over the second link. It is noted that there was a 3%
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largest market of the world and rank 2nd in the list. It is noted that total visitor day is
calculated to around 56 million days, which includes the growth of 3%, and on an average its
3.7 days each guest17. In this 21% of tourist were mainly the day trippers, where else 79%
came to stay for a day. It is noted that 77.5% of the tourist came through the flight, 10.2%
came from sea, and 12.3% came from land. The highest visitor group was between the age of
25-34 and in that 22.9% of the tourist. It also follows the 21.3% of the visit between the age
of 35-44 and 16.9% were between the ages of 45-54 years18.
The tourist came through the five famous markets, which is mainly Indonesia,
Malaysia, India, People Republic of China as well as Malaysia. In the year 2016, it was noted
that People Republic of China visitor’s number got more than the tourist number of
Indonesia. The receipt of tourism was calculated to around $23.6 billion in the year 2014, in
comparison to the $18.9 billion in the year 2010, which includes the one who came for
entertainment, sightseeing and gaming and this figure accounts for around 24.7% of the
accommodation and total expenditure coming to around 22.5%, shopping includes 17.4%,
and 9.6% includes food and beverages. The medical receipt includes the industry of medical
tourism, which accounts for around 4.2% in the country. It is noted that the revenue of
Gazetted hotel room was calculated to around $3.15 billion, which is an increase of 7.7% in
the year 2013. The complete average rate of occupancy was calculated to around 85%, which
is lesser of 0.9% less as compared to 2013, including the upscale tier viewing the highest
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increase of 1%. The complete average rate of the room stayed flat of $258, where else the
total revenue each room was $221, which the reduction of 0.9% in the year 201319.
It is noted that Singapore Tourism board try to promote the various events every year
for the tourist. Few of the anchor's events include the Singapore Art festival, Chiingay
Parade, as well as Garden Festival. In July ever year Singapore Food Festival is organized for
the cuisine of Singapore.
Yearly events cover the Christmas Light Up, Singapore Sun Festival, as well as
Singapore Jewel Festival. Singapore even tries to host the FIA Formula One World
Championship in the year 2008, and this was the first-night event happened in the Formula
One history. This event was referred as the successful event, as it offered the sheer
organization, hard work, and planning, which was put in the event. In the year 2010,
Singapore had hosted the Youth Olympic Group, in which Singapore Tourism Board had
mentioned that games are expected to incur around 180000 visitors each night.
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Singapore Flyer- the world’s largest observation wheel is located in Singapore and is known
as Singapore Flyer. It’s considered as one of the typical experience and is constructed over
the three-story terminal building. It’s the most attractive place in Singapore, and many people
go there for having the specular view of the city. The flyer is in the 150m of the diameter, as
well as 165 m high along with that it travels for 0.21m each second20. The Singapore Flyer is
also 30m taller as compared to the London Eye. It has breath-taking panorama view, which is
different at the time of day and night. It becomes difficult for the visitors to select the right
time to go on a ride of the flyer21. Through this flyer, passengers can easily have a look at the
city sights, like Empress Place, Singapore River, Padang, as well as Marina Bay.
Burmese Buddhist Temple- this temple is also known as the Maha Sasana Ramsi. This
temple includes the marvelous structure, which is also considered as the national heritage
site. All around the year, many events are organized at this place like celebrating Chinese
New Year. Tourist can easily visit this place either through bud or road. It is important to
remember that shoes should be open outside the temple, before going inside. This temple is
overcrowded on weekends as compared to weekdays.
Marina Bay Sands- Tourist like visiting Marina Bay Sand, which is the most spectacular side
of the Singapore, by the cosmopolitan city development, the site of Marian Bay Sands comes
across major transformation. It’s the most focal point of the city, and there are different
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things that one can enjoy doing, as the building includes the epic things and resort to the
casino, science museum and different options for shopping, dining as well as great nightlife
options. The best time to visit is 8 Pm for viewing the specular light show that illuminate the
water along with various local landmarks, which can be considered over the postcard22.
Sentosa- Sentosa is referred as the most attractive island, and its primary purpose is to
construct the island for the southern tip. This island is there for having relaxation and leisure.
This beach includes the collection of shopping, dining, theme parks, and many more things
are there for having the reclaimed land, which could be easily reached either by the cable car
and road. If someone wants to add more fun in their Singapore trip, then they can visit
Sentosa beach.
Supertree Grove- it is also known as the gardens of the bay, which is the massive, futuristic
and colorful park, located in the Singapore bay area, and tourist enjoys visiting this place.
Many people visit this place mainly because it offers the big super tree structure and even
offers impressive skywalk on the gardens, and this greenhouse creates the climate of the
chilly mountain and includes many trees and plants, which makes the destination look more
fun for both adults and children23.
My trip to
I went on a trip to Singapore last year with my friends. It was my first visit to that
place, and I enjoyed a lot on this trip, as the city has so many things to visit. With friends, it
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was fun visiting those sites. Singapore offers a complete package to the visitors, a sit has
world’s best park, shopping hubs, food destinations, universal studio for rides and
entertainment, beaches, along with casinos. I am in love with this city, and if I get a chance, I
will again visit it.
15 days Singapore Itinerary
I am an economy class tourist, so I will visit all budget places.
Day 1 and 2: Historical visit
First day tour will start with the visit to colonial district. Colonial district has its own charm
as it has various iconic architectural buildings. It includes Parliament House, St. Andrews
Cathedral, National Museum of Singapore, Clarke Quay, and Fort Canning.
Day 3 to 6: Visit to ethnic places like Arab Street, Malay District, Chinatown and Little India.
Our visit starts at Kampong Glam, where British came in 1819. We will visit few mosques
and temples that are near to Bugis. I will also enjoy at different eateries having Middle East
Food. My visit will also include visiting Chinatown, Thian Hock Keng Temple, and Sri
Mariamman Temple, which are oldest Hindu Temple in Singapore.
Day 7: Visit to Night Safari, Singapore Zoo, War Museum, Bird Sanctuary and shopping
My 7th day will start with my visit to Singapore Zoo, and we can easily get taxi for it. It is one
of the best zoos of the world. Then I will go to Kranji War Memorial, which is dedicated to
soldiers of British Empire died during Second World War. In evening I will visit Raffles
Place and from there I will take a cab to south bank of Singapore River.
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My day will start with my visit to Melaka, which is located in the historic town of Penang. I
will go at oldest part of the city, which includes many European buildings, old palaces, shops
and private houses. I will also visit Cheng Hoon Teng Temple.
Day 13: Visit to Pulau Ubin Changi Village
I will take a boat rise to visit fishing village of Pulau Ubin Changi. This village also includes
beautiful marine life. Here one can get famous fish and chips, chicken wings, and cold beer.
Day 14-15: Visiting main city
On my final day, I will visit Sentosa Island, which is a popular amusement park. Here I will
also enjoy cultural show. I will also take a ride to Singapore Flyer, and Marina Bay Sands.