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Singapore is getting used to the new normal for travel and looking for ways to tap into demand for business meetings.
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Even if the global health crisis drags on, It's created a safe bubble hotel where locals and short term visitors can talk meeting rooms in connect at Chang E.
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R, divided by walls of glass.
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Attend these communicate via speaker.
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Documents can be passed back and forth, each time sterilized with UV light Robin, who is head off international policy and governance at investment company Temasek, which developed the facility.
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It wasn't long before we realized that the pandemic was likely to have a very long tail and possibly lasting for years, so therefore it was a problem looking for solutions.
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Bookings have just opened for the hotel, which will eventually offer 660 guest rooms.
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Even the heiress, segregated guest and visitor areas are ventilated by different ducts.
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On there will be a very strict testing regime.
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Travelers will be tested before departure on arrival and regularly at the venue.
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For all the complications.
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Demand isn't just coming from business, but interestingly, we've also had enquiries from parents who have kids studying here in Singapore, whom they ever met for the entire year on.
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But if you're doing some good to parents to relieve their anxiety, and I think we'll be doing something good as well, who can't say if the hotel will be hosting one high profile event?
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The World Economic Forum is due to hold its much delayed annual meeting in the city in August.
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Whether it will take place in the bubble hotel isn't yet confirmed.