The number of international visitor arrivals is on the rise as Singapore readies to open up its borders to all vaccinated travellers.

But industry players and observers are still waiting for a significant recovery in inbound tourism, with tourists currently a fraction of the travellers entering under the Vaccinated Travel Lane scheme.

In The Straits Times’ The Big Story, Multimedia journalist Hairianto Dirman spoke to Transport correspondent Toh Ting Wei to find out if tourism will return to pre-pandemic levels.