Revolution Travel Fair 2015 at Marina Bay Sands

The Revolution Travel Fair 2015 held at Marina Bay Sands Singapore, is organized by 24 travel agencies, including the travel industry’s Big Four – Chan Brothers Travel, CTC Travel, SA Tours, and Dynasty Travel. This brand new travel fair is to rival the well known NATAS Travel Fair, and is to be held on 3 – 5 April 2015 (postponed from the initial plan of 27 – 29 March 2015).

This travel fair looks better than the NATAS Fair that I posted in earlier post.

Best of all both fairs are free admission. NATAS used to charge admission fees at few dollars per person. Come on, we ain't going alone, it can be costly if we attend the fair in a family of four or more.

I have been attending such travel fair since decades ago when the fair started and it used to be free admission. The reason for such fair is for the convenience of both travel agents and consumers, so we can get information and compare prices under one roof, and decided which travel agents gives the best price for the tours we wanted to go, and also to get information from different tourism boards all under one roof too.

The crowd definitely looks bigger. I managed to get the information that I needed.

Wow the Thailand booth looks beautiful with its decorations.

Mascot for Chan Brothers Travel

Saw this advertisement for Tokyo,the price looks very attractive.

No, I did not book this tour, but I am going Japan in a couple of months, is a DIY tour.

Travel Fair

Weekends, Singaporeans love to head to exhibitions at Singapore Expo where there are many exhibitions or fairs going on there. I was there too checking out some electronic appliances at the electronic fair and happens to come across this mini travel fair.

Interesting this see this booth from Malaysian Tourism Board. They have this teh tarik making demonstration at the booth and after that visitors were offered free samples of the tea. Teh tarik (literally "pulled tea") is a hot Indian milk tea beverage which can be commonly found in restaurants, outdoor stalls and kopi tiams in southeastern Asian countries like Malaysia and Singapore. Its name is derived from the pouring process of "pulling" the drink during preparation. It is made from black tea, condensed milk and evaporated milk. You can read more information from wikipedia.

I was at the travel fair trying to find some ideas on where to have a short break in neigbouring country.

A short video on making teh tarik

My World Tuesday - Japan Fair at Jurong Point

Last weekend, I was at Jurong Point shopping and dining and was pleased that there was a Japan Fair going on at the mall. Saw the national costume of the Japanese, love how the kimono look so beautifully especially the bows/ribbons at the back.

The huge paper origami of the crane was a reminder of how my late paternal grandmother used to teach us how to fold them.

A short video on the demonstration of making mochi or muah chee.

For other sky watchers, please hop over to Skywatch Blog