Since then, the hotel scene in Singapore has only grown more exciting, as the city-state now ranks not only as the best place for business in Southeast Asia, but also as a compelling destination for leisure travelers to explore.

That new allure has come to a head in 2017, with a veritable explosion of new hotels coming onto the travel scene.

“The last couple of years have been quite big with more than 8,000 rooms coming into the system,” says Jesper Palmqvist, area director for Asia at STR, a market data and analytics firm with offices in Singapore.

Making sense of Singapore’s hotel boom

Singapore’s illustrious hotel history may have started with (CNN) – Raffles, but it took many decades for another new hotel – the Marina Bay Sands in 2010 – to capture travelers’ popular imagination in the same way.

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