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The Fullerton Hotel: A favourite place to stay for leisure and business in the Central Business District of Singapore.
India continues to be an important and growing segment for the leisure, and business travellers for The Fullerton Hotel in Singapore, its General Manager Giovanni Viterale said.
“At the luxury end, ultra high-net worth travellers from India continue to find Singapore an attractive destination,” he noted after The Fullerton Hotel was declared a National Monument by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on December 7, 2015.
“As an oasis for recreation, culture, lifestyle and the arts, The Fullerton Heritage has much to offer our Indian guests due to its plethora of fine hospitality, award-winning dining establishments, and shopping and entertainment venues at the waterfront,” he told fii-news.com.
Elaborated Viterale: “India is one of the top five tourist generating markets for Singapore. Singapore benefits from India’s strong outbound business travel as this continues to be one of the fastest growing-markets for travel and tourism.
Straddling between the past and future is The Fullerton Heritage precinct with strong links to colonial days. It is the top-rated hotel in Singapore’s Central Business District, with a view of the Marine Bay and the highrise commercial and financial hub.
Built in 1928 on the former site of Fullerton fort at the mouth of Singapore river, The Fullerton Building housed many occupants such as the General Post Office, The Exchange, the Chamber of Commerce and
The Singapore Club, all of which played important economic roles in ensuring that Singapore remained the trading hub in Southeast Asia at the time.
With its distinguished Doric columns and monumental porte cocheres, the Fullerton Building represents the height of Palladian architecture in Singapore, with only two other buildings in the city that share the same architectural grandeur – City Hall and the old Supreme Court, also icon in the list of 70 other national monuments.
The Fullerton Building is also where some of Singapore’s pioneer leaders began their careers in the government departments housed in the building. These include Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, former Deputy Prime Minister Dr Goh Keng Swee and former President Mr S.R. Nathan.
It was decided in 1996 to conserve the building. Leading property group Sino Land, which had successfully bid for the site, helmed the building’s transformation into a hotel between 1997 and 2000.
Then Prime Minister Mr Goh Chok Tong officiated at the opening of The Fullerton Hotel Singapore on 1 January 2001. fii-news.com
