The King’s and I

Shing Huei Peh

Chapter 5 in Strictly Business:The Kwek Leng Beng Story, 2023, pp 45-52 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: When the jet age finally reached Asia in the early 1960s, it was obvious to the young Singapore government that the British colony was unprepared to tap on the good value to be made from global tourism. Jetliners were moving people across borders at a rate unseen in human history, with a record 58 million travellers in 1963, but Singapore had done next to nothing to promote international tourism. Something had to change…

Keywords: Kwek Leng Beng; Hong Leong Group; Hong Leong; Singapore; Millennium Hotel; Millenium Hotel; 9/11; The Plaza; authorised biography; CDL; City Development Ltd; Donald Trump (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L2 L21 L26 L85 M1 M13 M16 R3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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