Tourism in Singapore

Singapore has a well-developed, with more than 8 million visitors in 2004 tourism industry. As a cosmopolitan city, to highlight the cultural differences and racial harmony, many visitors to Singapore have visited as a tourist destination, not only as a springboard or transit country.

Singapore reported among foreign tourists as an attractive tourist destination, making tourism one of the main economic activities in Singapore. Cultural differences reflect the richness of the Chinese and Malay colonial history, Arabic and Indian. For years as a business center in Southeast Asia, Singapore has a thriving shopping area of ​​Orchard Road located. Filled with several shopping centers, this area also has many hotels, and by many as the center of tourism in Singapore.

Other famous attractions include the Singapore Zoo and Night Safari. There, people can explore the habitat of Asia, Africa and South America at night, no real barrier between the customer and wildlife. Singapore Zoo has the concept of "open zoo" where animals are kept with a fence, separated from visitors by hidden dry or wet adopted ditch, instead of animal enclosures. Also famous Jurong Bird Park, where there is a good specimen of birds from around the world, including a flock of thousands of flamingos. Sentosa Iceland, south of Singapore, consisting of 20-30 sights such as Fort Siloso, which was built as a fortress to resist the Japanese during the Second World War. Guns of World War II may at Fort Siloso, small weapons are seen on 16 pounds (7 kg). Today, the island Carlsberg Sky Tower, which can be built making the visitor can see Sentosa. In the future, Singapore will have two joints with casino resorts in 2009, announced a Marina Bayfront and Sentosa are in other government during the parliamentary session, 18 April 2005.