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 STB waives licence charges for lodges and journey brokers
January 2, 2022

STB waives licence charges for lodges and journey brokers

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Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has launched measures to assist tourism companies fight the affect of the 2019 novel coronavirus (nCoV). STB mentioned it could waive licence charges for lodges, journey brokers and vacationer guides, and defray enhanced cleansing prices of lodges that offered lodging to confirmed and suspected instances of nCoV infections.

The tourism sector has already been immediately impacted by nCoV, on account of a decline in customer arrivals, particularly from China. Chinese language vacationers account for round 20% of Singapore’s worldwide customer arrivals, with about 3.6 million guests in 2019.

Keith Tan, chief govt of STB mentioned: “We all know the state of affairs is prone to persist and recognise we have to transfer shortly to assist the trade and construct confidence. STB will proceed to establish focused and efficient methods to assist the tourism trade in order that they’re well-positioned to develop as soon as we begin to recuperate.” As a part of this preliminary package deal, lodges that offered lodging to suspected and confirmed instances of nCoV infections will get assist with their environmental cleansing and disinfection prices.

STB will cowl as much as 50% of third-party skilled cleansing charges, capped at SGD 20,000 (USD 14597.37) per institution for lodges with confirmed instances; and SGD 10,000 (USD 7298.68) per institution for lodges with suspected instances. This shall be backdated to 23 January, when the primary case of nCoV an infection in Singapore was detected. Functions will open till 30 April, following which STB will assess the state of affairs to see if additional assist is required.

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