1.

tourism can benefit local communities by providing employment, albeit often only seasonal
work.

Applicable / relevant?: Y, but not seasonal work tourism is a year-round industry.

Other potential point: Y, provides employments, but cannot say that tourism has benefitted SGeans

Examples: Hotels (Fullerton), MBS, RWS, Pulau Ubin, Coney Island, USS, Singapore Zoo, Gardens by the
Bay man made and manicured controlled by govt through STB

Evaluation:

- Example-specific: some of the most well-known, iconic & recognisable tourist attractions are
controlled by local governments and locals end up feeling detached, irrelevant and contrived
e.g.GBTB manmade garden featuring artificial supertrees in contrast to the native forests and
the natural flora and fauna of sg. Cater to tourists perceptions on what sg is like.
- E.g. Chinatown used to be sgreans shopping street featuring shophouses but it is not really true
to the spirit of sgrean lives. Filled with mish mash merchandise and goods from international
countries. The issue is that these tourist traps or attractions (depending on how cynically you
view them) are commercialized and cater to the tourists gaze; they dont feature
images/objects closer to SGeans hearts, such as HDB void decks or neighbourhood plazas,
Singapores multiculturalism.
o Rebuttal: e.g pinnacle@duxton-architectural wonder.
- Tourists only see the superficial representation and symbols of sgs multiculturism- the fact that
there are many temples in sg but they dont try to understand the significance of how sg has
shaped our cultural landscape- they dont care about more deeply rooted aspects of sg culture.
- Example-specific: on the other hand, tourism has benefitted sg as our local dishes were awarded
the Michelin star awards because many tourists enjoyed our food.
2. Tourism [] can revitalize communities through investment in infrastructure

Applicable / relevant: Y, Tiong Bahru, Chinatown

- Conservation districts like Chinatown thanks to tourism- famous food centres eg. Maxwell
- Sg zoo/science centre- good educational zone for young kids.
- MBS- world class architecture , iconic design
- Sg flyer/art science museum
3. community pride can be rekindled as the profile of a destination is raised
- Eg. National stadium, marina bay, world class architecture
- Floating platform
- Chinatown
- Artscience museum
- Botanical gardens UNESCO world Heritage Site
- Gardens by the bay
- Sentosa
4. Their growing nos are spawning a global monoculture of homogeneous shops and outlets which
drives out the local and distinctive

Applicable / relevant?: N, SG = glocalisation rather than globalization

- Sg govt involve locals eg. Mbs and botanical garden- sg national flowers
- Night safari- differentiated
- Conversely- e.g. orchard road, shops in which you will see in London, Tokyo- no sg flavor to
them- culture is diluted.
- E.g. bukit brown cemetery to be demolished to build a new expressway by the URA, contains
universal value for sgeans graves of many citizens before 1940, symbol of our past and
heritage: fulfils the requirement for UNESCO to be designate it as a world heritage site however
govt is going to bulldoze it down- govt prioritises capitalism over preserving what is culturally
valuable to us
5. Any new tourist devts will need to take acct of the pressure to be sustainable ensuring negative
impacts are minimized
- Applicable/relevant: y, but because of land/practical constraints rather than negative impacts
- Singapore govt- making sure negative impacts balanced with good- eg mbs casino built but
singaporeans need to pay a higher fee to enter and campaigned anti-gambling campaigns
- E.g. f1 race- progress for car racing fans for sg
- Rebuttal: e.g. bukit brown demolished- but only for transportation-ironically if it was a tourist
site, it would have survived instead of remaining in the dust of the past.
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