Pursuits

There Have Never Been So Many Tourists Coming to Singapore

  • The increase coincided with the reopening of Raffles Hotel
  • U2 frontman Bono called Singapore a “sci-fi city” at his show
A year ago “Crazy Rich Asians” drove a surge of tourists to Singapore. Now that record has been eclipsed.(Source: Bloomberg)
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It’s almost like a sequel to “Crazy Rich Asians.”

A year after the movie -- set in Singapore -- helped drive a record number of visitors to the city-state, the tourists are back again in full force, pushing arrivals to a new high in the third quarter.