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Warner Bros. Discovery Global Themed Entertainment and NEON have announced that Resorts World Sentosa (RWS), Singapore, will host the Asia Premiere with the largest-ever engagement of Harry Potter: Visions of Magic. This unique multimedia spectacle will be shown within RWS beginning in Fall of 2024. Harry Potter: Visions of Magic created by Warner Bros. Discovery Global Themed Entertainment and NEON is an evocative and interactive art experience exploring some of the most mysterious corners of the wizarding world across more than 40,000 square foot venue. Discover a series of immersive environments inspired by enigmatic places in the magical community, like the Room of Requirement, Newt’s Menagerie, the Ministry of Magic, and more. Responsive video content, bold architecture, and original soundscapes create breathtaking multi-sensory installations, while interactive technology invites guests to illuminate the invisible, revealing visions of magic that bring the entire experience to life. Following the sensational success of its world premiere in Germany, Harry Potter: Visions of Magic is now ready to welcome guests in Southeast Asia. Fans of Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts can look forward to a newly enhance journey created specifically for Resorts World Sentosa. An additional 10,000 square feet of expanded spaces will be unveiled making this a truly unique, and never-to-be-forgotten journey to be found exclusively in Singapore at this premium lifestyle destination resort. Fans around the world have truly embraced this experience which is now close to a complete sell-out in Germany. The overwhelming demand for tickets, surpassing a remarkable 138,000 tickets prior to the grand opening, speaks to the uniqueness of this experience. Notably, Ticketmaster Germany honored NEON with the Highest Pre-sale Award, affirming the immense success achieved in the previous region. …

Singapore has introduced biometric immigration clearance at Changi Airport. Josephine Teo, Minister for Communications and Information, said, “Passengers departing from city-state will go through automated immigration clearance from first half of 2024.”   

The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) announced the appointment of Lim Kean Bon as Area Director, India, South Asia, and Africa on September 1. He will succeed Raymond Lim as the India market lead based in New Delhi, leading STB’s promotion, and travel trade engagement activities in Northern and Eastern India to sustain and grow affinity for Singapore from leisure travelers. In addition, Kean Bon will be responsible for business development efforts to secure visitorship across India to Singapore in the Cruise and Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions (MICE) segments. He will also lead his team in engaging consumers in other regional markets like Bangladesh and South Africa. Speaking on this appointment for Singapore Tourism Board (STB), GB Srithar, Regional Director, India, Middle East, South Asia & Africa (IMESA), said, “We extend a hearty welcome to Kean Bon as he joins our dynamic team. I believe Kean Bon’s leadership in driving experience development for a leisure precinct and his past tenure in the Singapore Exhibition & Convention Bureau (SECB) places him in good stead to take on this role in STB New Delhi, particularly in this pivotal moment of anchoring Singapore as the premier lifestyle and business destination for Indian travellers.” Kean Bon started his career in the Singapore public service as an urban planner in Singapore’s city planning authority. He joined the STB infrastructure planning and management division in 2015 to drive the planning of MICE infrastructure, and subsequently moved on to the SECB team in 2017, where he managed destination bids and account servicing activities for large-scale business meetings and conventions organised by global associations. Prior to taking on the STB New Delhi leadership role, Kean Bon led STB’s …

According to data provided by STB, India has been ranked the second-largest tourist market for Singapore in 2022 after Indonesia, reporting 686,000 Indian arrivals. Indonesians, Indians and Australians were top spending tourists in the first nine months of 2022 with SGD 8.96 billion.

Singapore has eased entry for travellers. At the ‘Reimagine Cruising from Singapore’ webinar, it was revealed that travelers will not require Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) or Vaccinated Travel Passport (VTP) for entering Singapore. Now, it’s only a three-step process which includes proof of vaccination for pax of age 12 and above; apply your visa (3-day approval process) and submit your arrival cards online three days before arrival.

Singapore is ready to welcome fully-vaccinated Indian visitors back to cruise from its shore. To update the trade about Singapore’s latest cruise offerings, Singapore Tourism Board (STB), Resorts World Cruises (RWC) and Royal Caribbean International (RCI) are organising the ‘Reimagine Cruising from Singapore’ on Thursday, 9 June 2022 at 11:30 am IST. Register on https://event.webinarjam.com/register/405/5v7qwi1w or contact jaspreet.kaur@ddppl.com or 9650196532. 

To provide further updates on the Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) between Singapore and India & Sri Lanka, Singapore Tourism Board will be organising another round of webinar exclusively for the Indian & Sri Lankan travel trade. The ‘Welcome Back to Singapore’ webinar will be held today at 11:30am IST/SLST. The virtual session will also touch on Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight operations and the customer experience at Changi Airport and Jewel Changi Airport. To register, contact jaspreet.kaur@ddppl.com or 9650196532. SIA operates daily flights from four Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) points in India and Sri Lanka: Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Colombo. In addition, SIA operates non-VTL flights from Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Cochin, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Mumbai. SIA recommends customers to check that they have selected a VTL flight before they book. SIA’s VTL POINTS TO SINGAPORE Country City Flight Number Frequency India BOM SQ423 7x weekly DEL SQ403 7x weekly MAA SQ529 7x weekly Sri Lanka CMB SQ469 7x weekly

To provide further updates on the Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) between Singapore and India & Sri Lanka, Singapore Tourism Board will be organising another round of webinar exclusively for the Indian & Sri Lankan travel trade. The ‘Welcome Back to Singapore’ webinar will be held on Monday, February 28 at 11:30am IST/SLST. The virtual session will also touch on Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight operations and the customer experience at Changi Airport and Jewel Changi Airport. To register, contact jaspreet.kaur@ddppl.com or 9650196532

Speaking at the second of a series of trade update webinars on 7th December titled ‘Welcome Back to Singapore,’ GB Srithar, Regional Director, India, Middle East and South Asia, Singapore Tourism Board, said, “We are delighted that six daily VTL flights commenced on 29th November between India and Singapore. This is a big step towards promoting tourism as we ‘Chart Our Pathways To Tourism Recovery’ together with our travel trade partner-friends and welcome back Indian visitors.” The VTL enables fully-vaccinated travellers from India to visit Singapore without the need for quarantine, subject to applying for a Vaccinated Travel Pass (VTP) and complying with safe travel measures. The two sessions of webinars on 25 November and 7 December jointly organised by the STB, Singapore Airlines and Changi Airport Group, were well attended by more than 2,000 travel agents from the travel fraternity across India.  This showed the strong interest to promote Singapore as one of the top of mind destinations among the consumers in India.

Travellers can travel without quarantine between Singapore and India. The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) announced the VTL expansion, under which travellers from Indonesia and India will be able to enter Singapore from 29th November. “The Ministry of Health has updated its public health assessment and will upgrade India to Category II from 19 November. Our discussions with India are progressing well, and we aim to start 2 daily VTL flights each from Chennai, Delhi and Mumbai by 29 November,” says S Iswaran, Minister for Transport, Singapore.