$SIA (C6L.SG)$ KEEPING SINGAPORE ATTRACTIVE Well, Chinese to...

$SIA (C6L.SG)$ KEEPING SINGAPORE ATTRACTIVE
Well, Chinese tourists are biting, it seems.

Trip.com (which owns the popular Chinese booking site Ctrip) saw Chinese bookings to Singapore surge to more than 13 times for the Chinese New Year period over the comparable period in 2023, a company spokesperson told me. On the day following the announcement, the surge was 120 per cent over the same day the week before.

Fliggy, another leading online travel agency in China, saw travel product bookings for Chinese New Year grow 21-fold (as at Feb 6), compared to the festive period in 2023. Leisure activity bookings increased by more than 30 times, a spokesperson revealed, and hotel bookings exceeded pre-pandemic levels.