{"id":694,"date":"2017-07-04T09:30:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T09:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2024-05-09T06:20:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T06:20:49","slug":"july-updates-singapore-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/july-updates-singapore-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"July Updates: Singapore, Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: Geologica; line-height: 22px;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: Geologica; line-height: 22px;\"><strong>Singapore:\u00a0<\/strong>our team had a lot of fun putting together our founder Won&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/352719709\/A-History-of-Singapore-s-Attractions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">presentation at Blooloop Live<\/a> in Singapore last month. Although it&#8217;s better listened to than viewed, feel free to flip through for a lightning fast overview of Singapore&#8217;s attraction development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: Geologica; line-height: 22px;\">We are stalwart\u00a0fans of Gardens by the Bay, the 100 hectare, $1 billion modern-day Hanging Gardens of Babylon. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.solaripedia.com\/files\/1262.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The culmination<\/a>\u00a0of decades of work by the city-state to secure its positioning as the Garden City (now City in a Garden), it is quite fitting\u00a0when you come to understand that Singapore became prosperous in large part through innovations\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbg.org.sg\/index.php?option=com_k2&amp;view=item&amp;layout=item&amp;id=680&amp;Itemid=245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">developed in the 1880s<\/a>, from its own Botanical Gardens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 15px; font-family: Geologica; line-height: 22px;\">We&#8217;ve done a massive\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/results\/in\/country\/Singapore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Singapore update in the Park Database<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/results\/in\/country\/Singapore\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/gardens-by-the-bay.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'EB Garamond';\"><strong>Colombia:\u00a0<\/strong>What does Colombia have to do with Singapore? \u00a0Not much that we know of. \u00a0But it&#8217;s a market worth paying attention to. \u00a0The fourth largest economy in Latin America, its domestic and international tourism is growing at nearly double-digit rates. \u00a0With a momentous peace treaty signed last year between the government and FARC rebels, it has brought peace to a country after decades of war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'EB Garamond';\">Our analysts are seeing a lot of interest in the country in terms of real estate and leisure deals, look out for it as a potential emerging market. \u00a0See the country&#8217;s update in our database\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/results\/in\/country\/Colombia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/results\/in\/country\/Colombia\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/MOKIGU\u00cdA-VIAJERA-CARTAGENA.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'EB Garamond';\"><strong>Miscellaneous Links:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'EB Garamond';\">Proof\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/2100947\/five-hour-wait-shanghai-see-two-million-years-human-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that the problem is perhaps not to minimize queuing<\/a>, it&#8217;s to maximize appeal&#8230;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'EB Garamond';\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-06-27\/lure-of-azure-waters-and-bangkok-nightlife-strains-thai-airports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thailand is targeting an eye-popping 90 million<\/a>\u00a0passengers through Suvarnabhumi Airport by 2022.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'EB Garamond';\">We predict the next big China-related move in this industry will be outbound Chinese investment, much in the vein of tech companies Alibaba,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/jd-com-plans-expansion-in-developing-markets-1497002111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JD<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/ctrip-com-we-can-grow-at-home-and-overseas-1496997451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ctrip<\/a>, etc. \u00a0This means Chinese capital investing in projects overseas.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'EB Garamond';\"><strong>Planning Tool:\u00a0<\/strong>stay tuned in the next few months for\u00a0<em>very<\/em>\u00a0important updates. \u00a0We remain dedicated to helping this industry as a whole harness large amounts of data and make the best decisions possible. \u00a0We intent to become, and remain, the industry&#8217;s source for theme park and attractions data. \u00a0To this end, we will\u00a0be putting in work to make market data and sizing tools much more accessible than they are\u00a0now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'EB Garamond';\">Until then, take care.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore:\u00a0our team had a lot of fun putting together our founder Won&#8217;s\u00a0presentation at Blooloop Live in Singapore last month. 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We are stalwart\u00a0fans of Gardens by the Bay, the 100 hectare, $1 billion modern-day Hanging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13],"tags":[28,29,30,31],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conferences","category-updates","tag-botanical-gardens","tag-colombia","tag-sentosa","tag-singapore"],"acf":{"":"","bfi_title":"","bfi_title_2":"","bfi_description":"","chart_image":"","chart_title":"","chart_description":"","bc_title":"","bc_sub_title":"","bc_content":"","bc_right_side_content":"","highlighted_image":"","highlighted_sub_title":"","highlighted_title":"","highlighted_bottom_text":"","highlighted_button_text":"","highlighted_button_link":"","below_highlighted_title":"","below_highlighted_sub_title":"","below_highlighted_content":"","below_highlighted_right_side_title":"","below_highlighted_list":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}