SINGAPORE: Job losses in the Singapore tourism sector are"inevitable" without mass market travel, but the Government will work with businesses and workers to help them adapt to the new COVID-19 reality, Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing said on Wednesday in a virtual dialogue with more than 600 tourism industry players.
In May, there were 880 visitor arrivals, a year-on-year decline of 99.9 per cent. Resorts World Sentosa, one of the largest tourism employers here,Some workers in the tourism and aviation sectors have already switched roles, with some becoming safe distancing ambassadors and others entering the healthcare sector or the education industry."The question is, how do we quickly reskill them for those jobs that are still available ...
"My own personal sense is that really without a vaccine, really without a rapid test, it is very difficult for us to imagine the resumption of air travel as what we were used to in the past," he said. "We will have to learn to live in a COVID world for the foreseeable future." He said:"Our opportunity is this, if we can do this well in Singapore - then we will show the way for the rest of the industry in other parts of the world to come together to work with us as well."The minister highlighted that the Government's"immediate priority" was to save as many jobs and businesses as possible, but said that support measures, which are costing close to S$100 billion, are not sustainable in the long term.
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