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Bedok Reservoir Chinese Garden East Coast Park Gardens by the Bay Mount Faber Singapore Botanic Gardens Singapore River Singapore Zoo Southern Ridges Ubin Island Upper Seletar Reservoir. Popular tourist attractions in Singapore include the following:
Merlion Park [a] is a famous Singapore landmark and a major tourist attraction, located at One Fullerton, Singapore, near the Central Business District (CBD). The Merlion is a mythical creature with a lion's head and the body of a fish that is widely used as a mascot and national personification of Singapore. Two Merlion statues are located at ...
Singapore Ducktours (part of RATP Group). Visitor arrivals to Singapore has been increasing since the country's independence in 1965. [2] As compared to a total of 99,000 visitors recorded in 1965, Singapore attracted approximately 19.1 million visitors in 2019 with receipts at S$27.7 billion, according to preliminary figures by the Singapore Tourism Board.
The Singapore River underwent a major cleanup program and the areas along the river were developed for restaurants and other tourist amenities. On 7 October 1997, the parliament passed the Tourist Promotion Board (Amendment) Bill to rename the STPB to Singapore Tourism Board. [8] On 19 November 1997, STPB was renamed as Singapore Tourism Board. [9]
This is a list of places in Singapore based on the planning areas and their constituent subzones as designated by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). Based on the latest URA Master Plan in 2019, the country is divided into 5 regions , which are further subdivided into 55 planning areas , and finally subdivided into a total of 332 subzones.
Haw Par Villa (Chinese: 虎豹別墅; pinyin: Hǔ Bào Biéshù; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hó͘ pà pia̍t-sú) is a theme park located along Pasir Panjang Road in Singapore.The park contains over 1,000 statues and 150 giant dioramas depicting scenes from Chinese Literature, folklore, legends, history, and statuary of key Chinese religions, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.
Tourism is a major industry and contributor to the Singaporean economy, attracting 13.6 million international tourists in 2023, more than double Singapore's total population. [381] Tourism contributed directly to about 3% of Singapore's GPD, on average, in the 10 years before 2023, excluding the Covid-19 pandemic years. [ 382 ]
Singapore – a sovereign republic comprising the main island of Singapore and smaller outlying islands which are located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia. [1] Singapore lies 137 kilometres (85 mi) north of the equator , south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia 's Riau Islands and is in-between ...