STB launches tourism resource portals for businesses

The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has launched two free-to-use online portals for tourism stakeholders to access and contribute information and data analytics.

The Tourism Information and Services Hub (TIH), which began beta tests in end-January, is an integrated B2B2C platform that aggregates up-to-date information about Singapore’s tourism offerings. These include ongoing promotions, walking trails and opening hours.

These are also available to local and international stakeholders through application programming interfaces, which allow organisations to distill relevant information into their own apps or websites.

Local agencies’ reception to TIH “has been quite positive”, said Quek Choon Yang, STB’s chief technology officer, at yesterday’s STB Tourism Industry Conference.

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