With summer a few months away, Singapore Tourism Board’s area director for the Philippines and Brunei Sherina Chan hopes to get many Filipino travelers with a slew of new attractions Singapore is offering for tourists.
Chan said most Filipinos view Singapore as an expensive destination. She, however, is confident that the quality and variety of what Singapore has to offer makes travel to their country “sulit.”
She said Filipino visitors are some of their fastest growing international tourists, ranking third after China and Taiwan. Filipino tourists are also their sixth largest market.
For the first half of last year, 349,000 Filipinos visited Singapore. Chan said that as 2012 was a good year for the Philippine economy, she expects this figure to be much higher when they get the full year results. Full story
