Reviving a dead blog.....

Well, it's been a while since I started running this Special Interest Travel Agency that does inbound markets. Honesty it's luck to step into this, as this was exactly what I wanted in life - The freedom to do and develop what I always wanted. Again this rash step of life was due to reassurance from my friends that I am suited in the Travel Industry, during my ORD trip with WH and friends.

Anyways, the Travel Industry is definitely exciting now. There will be some drastic change in Travelers Profile. There will be a rising trends in FIT, as people are so widely traveled they no longer needs souvenir shopping and commercial photogenic places anymore. Many started looking into local experiences, when they actually start to eat, drink, sleep, pray, like locals, to fully dip into the local scene to see the world in different angles.

That's what we aim to provide! Not so much on restaurants, but normal hawker centres, with good local street food, at least for our Foodie Express, with commentaries about what makes the Singaporean Dishes special. These are popular ethnic enclaves, Little India, and Chinatown, but how many actually went to explore every corner, every alley, every story?

Then we do Night Tours, not many operators are doing this, or rather I think we are the only one, that breaks from the standard 4 bars 1 club model, and actually provides for a range of personalities. With inclusions such as  rooftop bars, local supper scene, speak easy bars, night dating spots, and ofcoz the iconic Singapore night view of skyscrapers, we are fun, but not the wild clubbing kind. We do what the locals do at night! Chill, date, stroll, eat!

Myself, I'm a strong advocate for Asia 101, a tour developed for travelers to taste and explore the South East Asian countries around Singapore, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and Thailand. This should be promoted for cruises and travelers who came to Singapore for a layover but may not have planned South East Asia in their itinerary, then this is definitely be a value added experience.

As for the Foodsteps of Gordon Ramsay, I developed it as that was the very first Tour I ever did when I submitted this experience with a Local Experiences hub like WithLocals or AirBnB.

So when everything is getting established properly in just these 2 months, we run Daily FREE Walking Tours and are rising in fame with more outreaches to Hostels and Accommodations, as well as F&B establishments. Yet, come June, we will be facing lots of strong competitors emerging, backed by strong big players overseas, bringing the model here.

Commercial tourism will decline definitely, which would be beneficial to us, but a huge paradigm shift in the industry. It WILL definitely affects the traditional travel suppliers, such as Hotels that solely depend on Tour Agencies, and due to the surplus of hotels nowadays, but declinign supply of mass tourism. Hotels and hostels will be taken over and combined into something big, because the small ones can't survive the price war and the old 3 to 4 star hotels too much vacancy since commercial tourism not bringing them people.

Sentosa will burst, with Locals and Travelers, and soon there will be measures for traffic flow. Ethnic quarters will be the next "in" thing, Chinatown, Little India, Bugis, even to heartlands and outskirts like Changi, and Jurong, and Mandai will rise in Fame. Ethnic and Culture will definitely shift to be more commercialized and may lose some of the very traditional practices and start to become like staged acting for travelers, but then again, as long as culture lives on, knowledge are passed on, why not right?

Tour buses will decline too, more smaller kombis and mini bus or vans would be in demand.

So I could sense the excitement and all already! Yet then again, in terms of resources, financial and manpower, do we really have enough? Are we able to grasp the attention and exposure before some big players come in and steal the limelight? I seriously do not know. And myself, my experience with fate isnt that great, I always considered myself unlucky by nature, but lucky due to strong support from the people around me, which I'm truly humbled by them, I wish to do more, but more often than not, I'm only as a man can do, there's only this much a man can do. Opportunities are there, but I'm not fortunate enough to score the right ones, I can only bang more walls and walk my way there eventually, but slowly, hopefully surely.

Anyways for those of you who has not:

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