Commentary: Don’t need a survey to judge if Singapore is exciting
Time Out’s 2018 City Life Index placing Singapore as second least exciting in a ranking of 32 cities has gotten netizens all riled up. Channel NewsAsia’s Lin Suling suggests we pay less attention to these surveys.
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Ricky Lim ·
When such survey is done, we need to correct the image.
Else it will affect our tourism industry - because foreign tourists will literally take it that Singapore is boring.
This will affect our airlines, hotel, retail for tourism, f&b etc - and this means affect business and Singaporeans jobs.
But how can it be boring when years after years, when more and more international visitors keeping coming to visit Singapore every year.
In 2016, when a record 16.4 million visitors arrive in Singapore.
In 2015, 15.2 million visitors.
In 2014, 15 million visitors
Else it will affect our tourism industry - because foreign tourists will literally take it that Singapore is boring.
This will affect our airlines, hotel, retail for tourism, f&b etc - and this means affect business and Singaporeans jobs.
But how can it be boring when years after years, when more and more international visitors keeping coming to visit Singapore every year.
In 2016, when a record 16.4 million visitors arrive in Singapore.
In 2015, 15.2 million visitors.
In 2014, 15 million visitors
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Ricky Lim ·
Ricky Lim ·
To prevent negative image from forming in our various tourism market, STB may have to "do more works" like producing more videos to feature all our interesting places for tourists - and put up in youtube, facebook, instagram etc etc etc......
This will help to counter the negative image that this survey has done to Singapore.
Social media influencers or good-minded Singaporeans who have the means to help market Singapore - to be a destination for foreign visitors can do within their means in social media to prop up Singapore's image as an exciting, fun and interesting places to visit.
This will help to counter the negative image that this survey has done to Singapore.
Social media influencers or good-minded Singaporeans who have the means to help market Singapore - to be a destination for foreign visitors can do within their means in social media to prop up Singapore's image as an exciting, fun and interesting places to visit.
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Ricky Lim ·
Of course, Singapore businesses or Singaporeans for who are in the tourism sectors such as in hotel business, airline business, tour business, retail business, f&b business etc -- will all the more should be more proactive and should take more initiatives to create more videos or whatever marketing means to attract more foreign tourists to come to Singapore ----- to sustain their business and their jobs.
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