Singapore looks to attract travellers from Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Singapore Tourism Board, a development agency for tourism in that country, on Tuesday kickstarted its eight-city roadshow with Hyderabad, to attract travellers from here and other cities across India. In 2018, Singapore received 1.44 million visitors from India, an increase of 13 per cent from 2017.

The trade engagement roadshow with the theme, 'Growing Connections, Achieving Together,' looks to deepen the tourism boards and their 45 Singapore tourism stakeholders existing partnership and foster new ones with the travel trade fraternity in each city – Hyderabad followed by Madurai, Trivandrum, Kolkata, Rajkot, Guwahati, Nagpur and Jalandhar.

GB Srithar, Regional Director, India and South Asia, STB, said: "Last year, India retained its position as the third largest source market for Singapore, in terms of visitor arrivals.

Singapore witnessed nearly five lakh visitors from Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Bengaluru, an increase of eight per cent compared to 2017. And nearly 2.5 lakh from cities like Hyderabad, Calcutta, Ahmedabad, Pune and Jaipur, an increase of 12 per cent from 2017."

Further, Srithar said that he would not forecast the growth rate of visitors from India for this year, underlining reasons of turbulence in the aviation industry here.