Indonesia’s Batam Island Eyes Singapore Tourism Growth

Indonesia's Batam island, an industrial zone with desires of remodeling into a significant vacationer destination, is sprucing itself up to lure massive-spending guests from subsequent-door Singapore. Batam is seeking to emulate the success of other Indonesian island close to Singapore, Bintan, which is already luxurious seashore and golfing vacation spot after opening high-pace ferry links to the town-state within the 1990s.To do so it must overhaul its picture to faucet into the spillover from the booming tourism market in Singapore, the city-state only a 45-minute ferry trip away.With Malaysia's close by Johor state luring extra visitors to its Iskandar metropolis, islands, seashores,...

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