Singapore Hotels and Accomodations
Singapore has become one of the major tourist countries in the
South-East Asia. The average visitor to Singapore, will stays around
4.2 days in the country and tourism income to the country is grossing
13.8 billion a year. Since 2007, 10.3 million visitors have travelled
to Singapore with an expected rise of 5.4 in the coming years.
Travelling to the Heart of South-East Asia is often affordable, but
because of the number of prominent global business events held in
country. Events like the IOC, ASEAN and IMF help to raise the
Singapore's hotels occupancy rate to 86. The room rates have also
started increasing 20 across-the-board, for the travel Mecca.
On the world map, Singapore is just a tiny little red dot. But because
of the influx of visitors arriving here, Singapore Tourism Board has
declared the number of rooms need to be double in 2015. There are two
integrated resorts due to be built in 2009 and 2010. The Marina by the
Sands and the Resorts World at Sentosa are going to give Singapore
more regional and World interest in the coming years.
Singapore's has many types of room accommodations from five-star
luxury hotels to moderately price motels and backpacker hostels.
Prices are not as cheap as elsewhere in South-east Asia, of course,
but travellers from Europe and North America will be pleasantly
surprised by what their money will buy.
The vast majority of Singapore's hotels are in the city centre, with
the bigger more swanky hotels found near Orchard Road. Then when
travelling next to the city's shopping heart, in the Marina area, on
the edge of the Colonial District and near the Central Business
In Chinatown and Orchard Road, the boutique style hotel, offers more
in the way of shopping. When in Little India and the Arad Quater are
better choices, for visitors, on a limited budget. Then For beach side
Singapore currently has 36,000 hotel rooms pretty healthy for the
little red dot, one of the smallest countries in the world but the
Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has stated the number of rooms needs to
double by 2015. New upmarket properties will certainly arrive to cope
with the influx of high-rollers hoped to be drawn to Singapore's two
new integrated resorts' (IRs) in Marina Bay and on Sentosa island
but they're some years away. Hotels in the pipeline include three new
resorts on Sentosa and the Boutique Hotel@Tiong Bahru, together adding
another 700 rooms. The Tiong Bahru establishment proves that the
boutique hotel trend as in the rest of the world is here to stay.
Boutique hotels, however, are just one portion of the overall market.
Singapore's accommodation choices are plentiful from five-star,
big-name luxury hotels to mid-priced options, budget joints and
backpacker hostels. Prices for room are not as cheap as compare with
elsewhere in South-east Asia, but travellers from Europe and North
America will be surprised by the quality and service provided by the
hotels.