Projected Tourist Arrivals and Hotel Rooms with Completion of Terminal 4

53 Mr Gan Thiam Poh asked the Minister for Trade and Industry (Industry) what is the projected number of tourist arrivals upon the opening of Changi Airport Terminal 4 and what is the number of hotel rooms that will be opened to meet the projected number of arrivals.

Mr S Iswaran: Changi Airport Terminal 4 is expected to open in 2017. An additional 5,700 hotel rooms will be completed by 2017 and a further 2,800 will be built from 2018 to 2020. This is sufficient to support the projected visitor arrivals growth in the medium term. The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) is constantly monitoring demand trends and will continue to work with industry partners and other relevant agencies to ensure that there is sufficient hospitality infrastructure to cater to the projected growth in visitor arrivals.

Apart from hospitality infrastructure, STB will also continue to work closely with industry to identify and support innovative tourism hardware and software development, while improving our capabilities. This is in line with STB's approach to Quality Tourism to achieve sustainable tourism growth in the longer term.