سنتوسا Sentosa

Coordinates: 1°14′53″N 103°49′48″E / 1.248°N 103.830°E / 1.248; 103.830
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Sentosa
Island of Singapore
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الشعار الرسمي لـ Sentosa
Looking south (top) and north (bottom) of Sentosa Island
الكنية: 
The State of Fun
Location in Singapore
الإحداثيات: 1°14′53″N 103°49′48″E / 1.248°N 103.830°E / 1.248; 103.830
CountrySingapore
الحكومة
 • MayorSouth West CDC
 • Members of ParliamentWest Coast GRC
المساحة
 • الإجمالي4٫71 كم² (1٫82 ميل²)
Rail servicesNorth East Line and Circle Line at HarbourFront Station
Sentosa Express
Major landmarksResorts World Sentosa
Universal Studios Singapore
Fort Siloso
Capella Singapore
Sentosa Island
Sentosa Logo 2024.png
Sentosa's logo
SloganAsia's Favourite Playground / Singapore's Island Resort / The State of Fun / Where discovery never ends
LocationSentosa Island
ThemeFantasy, adventure
Opened1972; 53 years ago (1972
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سنتوسا Sentosa، هي جزيرة منتجع شهير في سنغافورة يزورها حوالي 20 مليون شخص سنوياً.[1] من أشهر معالمها السياحية شاطئ محمي بطول 2 كم، حصن سيلوسو، ملعبي گولف، المرليون، وستوديهات سنغافورة العالمية.

وتعتبر جزيرة سنتوسا الوجهة السياحية الأولى في سنغافورة، حيث تضم الجزيرة مجموعة من الأماكن السياحية التي تستقطب السياح من كل مكان في العالم، فتحتوي على الحدائق والمتنزهات ومدن الملاهي والألعاب والمتاحف وغيرهم من المزارات السياحية. كما تضم الجزيرة مجموعة من الفنادق الفاخرة التي توفر الإقامة المريحة لزوارها.

Formerly used as a British military base and afterwards as a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, the island was renamed Sentosa in the 1970s to become a popular tourist destination. It is now home to a popular resort that receives up to 25 million visitors per year.[2] Attractions include a 2.5 km (1.6 mi) long sheltered beach, Madame Tussauds Singapore, an extensive cable car network, Fort Siloso, two golf courses, 14 hotels as well as the Resorts World Sentosa, which features the Universal Studios Singapore theme park and one of Singapore's two casinos, the other being in Marina Bay Sands.

Sentosa is also widely known as being the location of the 2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit, where North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump met at the Capella Singapore located on the island. This was the first-ever meeting between the leaders of North Korea and the United States.[3] As an island geared towards recreation and tourism with its casino and resorts under a tropical climate, as well as residences for the wealthy, Sentosa is more than twice the size of Monaco.

أصل الاسم

Sentosa is marked as "Blacan mati" (left, above Singapura) for "blakang mati" in this 1604 map of Singapura by the Malay-Portuguese cartographer Manuel Godinho de Erédia. The Malay Peninsula (Ujontana) is to the right.

The name Sentosa translates to "peace and tranquility" in Malay, which was in turn derived from the Sanskrit term Santosha, meaning "contentment, satisfaction".[4][5] Sentosa was formerly known as Pulau Blakang Mati[6][7] which in Malay means the "Island of Death Behind".[8][9]

The name Blakang Mati is old; an island was identified as Blacan Mati in Manuel Godinho de Erédia's 1604 map of Singapore. Other early references to the island of Belakang Mati include Burne Beard Island in Wilde's 1780 MS map, Pulau Niry, Nirifa from 1690 to 1700, and the nineteenth century reference as Pulau Panjang (J.H. Moor). However, early maps did not separate Blakang Mati from the adjacent island of Pulau Brani, so it is uncertain to which island the seventeenth century place names referred.

The island has changed name several times. Up to 1830, it was called Pulau Panjang ("long island"). In an 1828 sketch of Singapore Island, the island is referred to as Po. Panjang. According to Bennett (1834), the name Blakang Mati was only given to the hill on the island by the Malay villagers on the island. The Malay name for this island is literally translated as "dead back" or "behind the dead"; belakang means "at the back" or "behind" or "after"; mati means "dead". It is also called the "dead island" or the "island of the dead" or perhaps "island of after death".

There are a number of different suggestions on how the island came to acquire such an unpropitious name:

  • One account attributed the ominous name to murder and piracy in the island's past.
  • A second claimed that the island is the material paradise for the spirits of warriors said to have been buried at Pulau Brani.
  • A third account claims that an outbreak of disease on the island in the late 1840s almost wiped out the original Bugis settlers on the island. Dr Robert Little, a British coroner investigating the deaths, stumbled upon what was called Belakang Mati Fever, purportedly a type of fever caused by miasmastic fumes arising from decaying leaves and swampy water on the island. This led to a controversy in medical circles at that time as to the causes of this disease. The disease was later recognised in 1898 as malaria spread by the Anopheles mosquito. The government's malaria research station was originally located here.
  • A fourth interpretation is that "dead back island" was so-called because of the lack of fertile soil on the hills. However, since the island creates an area of dead water behind it with no wind (hence "still behind" - still or stopped being an alternative translation of mati) it may be as simple as this — less romantic perhaps, but believable from a nautical viewpoint.
View from Imbiah Lookout to Mainland Singapore

In 1827, Captain Edward Lake of the Bengal Engineer Group in his report on public works and fortifications had proposed an alternative name for Belakang Mati as the "Island of St George". However, the island was seen as too unhealthy for habitation and his proposed name was never realised.

The Tallest Merlion statue on Sentosa which has since been permanently closed

In a 1972 contest organised by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board, the island was renamed Sentosa, a Malay word meaning "peace and tranquility", from Sanskrit, Santosha.


التاريخ

Early period

Pulau Blakang Mati

Pulau Blakang Mati was once home to the native Malays who were relocated to the mainland, together with the Pulau Brani villagers, due to urban redevelopment in the late 1970s. In the nineteenth century, the island was considered important because it protected the passage into Keppel Harbour. Plans to fortify the island as part of the defence plan for Singapore were drawn up as early as 1827, but few fortifications actually materialised until the 1880s, when the rapid growth of the harbour led to concern over the protection of coal stocks against enemy attack. The four forts built on the island were Fort Siloso, Fort Serapong, Fort Connaught and the Mount Imbiah Battery.[6][10]

Fort Siloso and Sarang Rimau

The western end of Pulau Blakang Mati, the place where Fort Siloso is now, used to be called sarang rimau (the tiger's den). Selusuh is a kind of herb used as a remedy in childbirth,[11] but there is no explanation of how the fort came to be so called, the orang laut of Kampong Kopit only knowing the place by the name of sarang rimau. By the 1930s, the island was heavily fortified and a crucial component of Fortress Singapore, and the base of the Royal Artillery.

Fort Connaught

Fort Connaught, on eastern side of Sentosa island, was earlier called Belakang Mati East Battery which was constructed in 1878. It had ammunition similar to Fort Siloso, with three Mark I 7 Inch RML Guns of 6+1⁄2 tons and two RML 64-pounder 64 cwt guns. In 1890 it was renamed the Fort Connaught to mark the visit of Duke of Connaught. In 1930s, fort was rebuilt and three Mark X 9·2-Inch Guns on 30° Mark VII Mountings with better range replaced the older firepower. On Mount Serapong, an underground Battery Plotting Room was constructed on the northern side and a Battery Observation Post on top of the hill. In 1942, during WWII, British forces at this fort exhausted their ammunition, and guns were tempered and disabled before the British surrendered to Japanese forces. A significant part of Mount Serapong was removed and it made way for the present day Tanjong Golf Course, due to which a major part of the fort was destroyed. Presently few remains of the fort can still be seen in the extreme east corner of the Tanjong Golf Course, namely observation tower in the northeast corner of golf course near Allenbrooke road, then to the south of it are gun number 3, gun number 2 and engine room, and finally gun number 1 - all short distance from each other.[12]

Fort Serapong

Fort Serapong, Fort Siloso, Fort Connaught and Imbiah Battery were constructed on Sentosa island in 1870 to form the southern defence of Singapore. Presently only 20% of the original fort has been discovered. [13] Ruins are reachable via Fort Serapong Road, then walking on a forested ridge which has several "Danger: keep out" type of signs.[14]

Second World War

During the Second World War, the island was a British military fortress. The British set up large-calibre gun fortifications at various points along the island that were aligned to the south, facing the sea in expectation of a seaward Japanese assault. The myth that the guns were incapable of pointing north developed after the War but this was wrong, they could swivel to point north but they were only equipped with armour-piercing shells for ships which made the shells ineffective against land based forces. The Japanese invaded and captured Singapore from the north, after having done the same to Malaya (now known as West or Peninsular Malaysia).

Following the surrender of the Allied Forces on 15 February 1942, Fort Siloso became a prisoner of war camp, housing Australian and British prisoners of the Japanese.[15] During the Japanese Occupation, under the Sook Ching Operation, Chinese men who were suspected, often arbitrarily, of being involved in anti-Japanese activities were brutally killed. 300 bodies, riddled with bullet wounds, washed up on the beach of Pulau Belakang Mati, and were buried by the British prisoners.[16]

1945–72

Pulau Belakang Mati map, 1945

After the Japanese surrender in 1945 and the return of Singapore to British rule, the island became the base of the locally enlisted First Singapore Regiment of the Royal Artillery (1st SRRA) in 1947. Other locally enlisted men from Singapore were sent to the island for basic military training before being sent to other units of the British Army in Singapore. Ten years later, the 1st SRRA was disbanded and its guns dismantled. The coast artillery was replaced with Gurkha infantry units, first the 2/7th Duke of Edinburgh's own Gurkha Rifles and later the 2/10th Princess Mary's own Gurkha Rifles. Fort Siloso and Mount Imbiah became a religious retreat and a Protestant church house respectively. Fort Connaught was left in ruins. Fort Serapong became a secure communications and listening station.

In the early 1960s, during the Indonesian Confrontation, the 2/10th occupied the island. Even though Indonesia was in close proximity there were few amateurish attempts of direct action by the Indonesians against Singapore. The Gurkha battalion rotated on a six monthly basis to Borneo where most military action during the Confrontation took place. A significant parade took place on the island during the Confrontation to announce the award of the Victoria Cross to Rambahadur Limbu for an action in Borneo. With the end of the Confrontation in 1966 and the withdrawal of the Gurkha battalion from the island, the British handed over Sentosa to the Singapore Armed Forces of the newly independent Government of Singapore in 1967. In 1967, Pulau Belakang Mati became the base for the Singapore Naval Volunteer Force, which relocated there from its old base at Telok Ayer Basin. The School of Maritime Training was also set up there, as was the first Naval Medical Centre. It became part of the Republic of Singapore Navy. Also in 1967, Pulau Belakang Mati became the military base for the School of Field Engineers, which relocated there from Pasir Leba Camp. The Field Engineer School trained the 1st Batch of Combat Engineer Commanders who in turn trained the 1st batch of Full Time National Servicemen who were enlisted in 1968. The 1st operational Combat Engineer Battalion was also raised here. The Engineer Headquarters (EHQ) was established here 1970 before moving to Gillman Camp in 1971.

By 1967, the Singapore government had reached an agreement with Esso to build an oil refinery on the island with the intent to eventually turn the island into a petrochemical complex. However, the then-chief of the Urban Renewal Unit (the forerunner of the Urban Redevelopment Authority), Alan Choe, wanted to somehow preserve the greenery of the island. With the support of Dr Albert Winsemius, he managed to convince then-Finance Minister Goh Keng Swee and then-Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong to turn the island into a tourism destination, and shift the planned Esso refinery to Jurong Island instead.[17]

1970s

Aerial perspective of Sentosa's Bridge

In the late 1960s, the government began to set out proposals for developing the island, and a contest to find a new name for the island was held in November 1969.[18] The island was renamed "Sentosa" in September 1970, which means peace and tranquility in Malay (from Sanskrit, Santosha), from a suggestion by the public.[7] In March 1971, the government announced plans to develop the island into a holiday resort for local visitors and tourists, and a S$124-million plan for developing Sentosa was unveiled in March 1972.[18]

The Sentosa Development Corporation was formed and incorporated on 1 September 1972 to oversee the development of the island.[7] Since then, some S$420 million of private capital and another S$500 million of government funds have been invested to develop the island.[7]

In 1974 the Singapore Cable Car system was built, linking Sentosa to Mount Faber. Finally, in 1975, the Republic of Singapore Navy had moved out from the Sentosa to Pulau Brani Island.[19] A series of attractions were subsequently opened for visitors including Fort Siloso, Surrender Chamber wax museum, Musical Fountain, and the Underwater World. The causeway bridge was opened in 1992 connecting Sentosa to the mainland.[19]

The Sentosa Monorail system was opened in 1982 to transport visitors across seven stations located around the western side of the island.[19]


1989

The former political prisoner and Nobel prize nominee Chia Thye Poh spent three-and-a-half years in internal exile on Sentosa after he was freed from 23 years in jail in 1989.[20]

2005

On 16 March 2005, the monorail service was discontinued to make way for the new Sentosa Express, which commenced operations on 15 January 2007.[19] An environmental assessment conducted by the government of Singapore concluded that the construction of an integrated resort on Sentosa would result in a high likelihood of high scale biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, soil erosion and climate change, as well as several other destructive ecological impacts. Therefore, over two hundred trees and plants from the area that was to be cleared for the construction of the resorts were replanted elsewhere on the island to minimize negative environmental impact.[21]

In 2009, construction of a new footbridge began. The S$70 million Sentosa Boardwalk includes themed gardens, shops and eateries. There are covered walkways and travellators along the boardwalk for rainy days.[22] The Boardwalk, officially opened by Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean on 29 January 2011, provides visitors with an alternative mode of travel to reach the island.[23][24] Sentosa Boardwalk, designed by Aedas, was named Best Leisure Architecture in Asia Pacific and 5* Best Leisure Architecture in Singapore, at the 2014 Asia Pacific Property Awards.[25][26]

2018

The island hosted the 2018 North Korea–United States summit between the United States President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea on 12 June 2018, at the Capella Singapore.[27] Sentosa island was gazetted as a 'special event area' by the Singapore Government and the Capella Singapore was chosen as the venue by the White House, a week prior to the summit.[28]

In his 2018 autobiography, Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong revealed that, when the tourism sector was suffering, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew made an attempt to allow a nudist resort to be built on Sentosa in order to attract tourists, but the motion was ultimately vetoed.[29][30]

2024 oil spill

On 14 June 2024 at about 2.20pm, a dredger hit a stationary bunker vessel stationed at Pasir Panjang Terminal, causing an oil spill that spread across several Southern Islands through East Coast Park, including Palawan, Siloso and Tanjong beaches. Sentosa announced that the beaches are still available, but any water-related activities are suspended until 3 August[31] while cleaning is underway.[32][33]

الجغرافيا

The island has an area of close to 5 km2 (1.9 sq mi). It lies just half a kilometre (a quarter of a mile) away from the southern coast of the main island of Singapore. It is Singapore's fourth-largest island (excluding the main island). 70% of the island was covered by secondary rainforest, the habitat of monitor lizards, monkeys, peacocks, parrots as well as other native fauna and flora, also, when the construction of Resorts World Sentosa commenced; environmental impact was kept at a minimum when over two hundred trees in the designated area were replanted elsewhere on the island.

Further development has significantly impacted the biodiversity of the island, resulting in the loss of much of the native fauna and flora. The island also has a 3.2 km (2.0 mi) stretch of white sand beach, which has impacted the reef. Significantly large portions of land are currently being added to Sentosa due to land reclamation.

المرافق

النقل

A Volvo B7RLE on the Blue Line. Buses currently serve as the main means of getting to and around Sentosa. It is fitted with Twin Vision EDS.
Beach station of Sentosa Express monorail at Sentosa island

Cable Car and Mainland Buses

Sentosa can be reached from the Singapore mainland via a short causeway or Cable Car, which originates from Mount Faber and passes through HarbourFront en route to its final destination at Imbiah Lookout. In 2015, Sentosa opened an intra-island Cable Car to facilitate travelling within the island. Dubbed the "Sky Network", the Cable Car has 3 stations, in Siloso, Imbiah, and near the now-closed Merlion, and is not linked to the original Cable Car.

Public bus services are available to connect Sentosa Island to the mainland. Tong Tar Transport service RWS8 operates between VivoCity/ HarbourFront station to Resorts World Sentosa during peak hours only. On 30 July 2017, SBS Transit Bus Service 123 was extended to enhance connectivity to Resorts World Sentosa, Merlion Tower (now closed), and Beach Station Bus Terminal.

Prior to COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore, SMRT had operated Express Bus Services 188R and 963R between Choa Chu Kang and Woodlands towards Resorts World Sentosa respectively on weekends and public holidays. These bus routes were withdrawn on 7 April 2020 due to low demand.

Sentosa Express

The island is also accessible by the Sentosa Express monorail, which replaced the old Sentosa Monorail that operated from 1982 to 2005. The Sentosa Express has three stations on Sentosa and one on mainland Singapore. The northern terminus of the line, which opened on 15 January 2007, is located at the VivoCity shopping mall on the mainland and the southernmost terminus, Beach Station, is located on Sentosa Island. In Vivocity, the mainland MRT is in turn served by the HarbourFront of the North East Line and the Circle Line.

Bus Terminal

The Beach Station Bus Terminal within Sentosa serves both residents and tourists access to various amenities around Sentosa. There are two bus services serving the terminal, identified as Bus A and Bus B. SBS Transit Bus Service 123 also serves this terminal.

Car/Foot

Since 1998, passenger cars have been allowed to enter the island.

Visitors can also access the island via the Sentosa Boardwalk which is parallel to the causeway (which opened on 29 January 2011). The first two days of its opening were marked with free entry into Sentosa for visitors who walk, and subsequently, an SGD 1 admission fee into Sentosa is charged. From 7 June 2014 to 4 January 2015, walk-in entry into Sentosa via the Sentosa Boardwalk is free on weekends and public holidays. Walk-in has been free of charge since the end of SG50 celebrations. The Sentosa Boardwalk hosts frequent bazaars on weekends.


Tram

Sentosa Beach Tram is a free-to-ride tram that serves Palawan Beach, Siloso Beach, and Tanjong Beach, using four vehicles including 2 Volvo B12BLEAs, in which the second carriage is an open-top and another one with green and blue liveries. The Volvo B12BLEAs were manufactured by ComfortDelGro Engineering bodywork, which has since been taken out of service. The connection is at Beach Station Bus Terminal, beside Beach Station.

Separately, a 3-car tram used to serve Underwater World.

An Autonomous Bus Trial was also conducted from mid-2019 to the end of 2019.

المعالم الرئيسية

صورة جوية لجزيرة سنتوسا، سنغافورة.


الشواطئ

شاطئ سيلوسو في سنتوسا.
صورة على شاطئ تانجونگ.
صورة جوية لشاطئ سيلوسو.
شاطئ پالاوان.
صورة جوية لشاطئ پالاوان.
صورة جوية لشواطئ سنتوسا.

الفنادق

  • فندق لو ميريديان: يقع على بعد 5 دقائق سيرًا على الأقدام من الشاطئ ومسافة 10 دقائق سيرًا على الأقدام من استوديوهات يونيفرسال سنغافورة، كما يبعد مسافة 20 دقيقة بالسيارة عم شارع أورشاد الشهير و35 دقيقة بالسيارة من مطار تشانغي الدولي. يعود تاريخ هذا الفندق إلى عام 1940 ويقع مقابل محطة القطار الكهربائي إمبيا، ويمنع الفندق التدخين ويضن مسبحًا في الهواء الطلق ومركز للياقة البدنية. ويضم الفندق مكتب استقبال يعمل على مدار الساعة وخدمة الكونسيرج وتخزين الأمتعة وغسيل الملابس.
  • فندق كابيلا: يقع على بعد 5 دقائق سيرًا على الأقدام من الشاطئ ومسافة 15 دقيقة سيرًا على الأقدام من استوديوهات يونيفرسال سنغافورة، ويبعد مسافة 45 دقيقة بالسيارة من مطار تشانغي الدولي. يقع هذا الفندق داخل الغابات المطيرة في جزيرة سينتوسا، ويضم 3 مسابح في الهواء الطلق وسبا. وتتميز الغرف بديكور عصري ويتمكن التمتع بـ 5 قطع من الملابس مجانًا لكل إقامة. كما يضم الفندق مطعم Knolls الذي يقدم الأطباق المحلية والعالمية.
  • فندق دابليو سنگابور- سنتوسا كوف: يقع الفندق على بعد 20 دقيقة بالسيارة من خيارات الحياة الليلية في Clarke Quay، ويبعد مسافة 30 دقيقة بالسيارة عن مطار شانگي الدولي. ويضم الفندق مسبح في الهواء الطلق وسبا ومركز للياقة البدنية، وتتميز جميع الغرف بإطلالات جزئية أو كاملة على المسبح أو المحيط. ويمكن للضيوف ممارسة دورة التمارين الرياضية في FIT ، ويتوفر مركز لرجال الأعمال ومكتب كونسيرج، وخدمات تحويل العملات وحجز التذاكر.
  • فندق هارد روك- سنتوسا: يقع الفندق على بعد 5 دقائق بالسيارة من مركز فيفو سيتي للتسوق، و10 دقائق بالسيارة من منطقة الأعمال المركزية في سنغافورة وعلى بعد 25 دقيقة بالسيارة من مطار شانغي الدولي. ويضم الفندق مسبح ذو شكل حر على شاطئ رملي اصطناعي مجهز، كما يضم الفندق ملعبًا للكرة الطائرة الشاطئية و30 غرفة للمناسبات ومركز للياقة البدنية يعمل على مدار الساعة. ويضم الفندق مكتب استقبال يعمل على مدار الساعة وخدمات الكونسيرج.
  • فندق فيستيف- سنتوسا: يقع الفندق على بعد 10 دقائق بالقطار الكهربائي من مركز فيفو سيتي للتسوق، وعلى بعد 10 دقائق بالسيارة من منطقة الأعمال المركزية كما يقع بجوار شارع فيستيف ووك الذي يضم مجموعة من خيارات الطعام والترفيه. ويضم المنتجع أكبر متحف مائي في العالم ويتم تقديم المشروبات والوجبات الخفيفة في الصالة والتراس.

المنتجعات

  • منتجع وسبا شانگريلا راسا سنتوسا: يقع هذا المنتجع على بعد دقيقتين سيرًا على الأقدام من الشاطئ، ويبعد مسافة 20 دقيقة بالسيارة من خيارات التسوق في شارع أوركاد، كما تصل خدمة القطار الكهربائي في الجزيرة إلى مركز تسوق فيفو سيتي. يمنع المنتجع التدخين بداخله ويوفر إطلالة بانوراميه على بحر الصين الجنوبي، ويضم مسبح في الهواء الطلق وسبا ومركز للياقة البدنية. وتشمل المرافق منزلقات مائية للأطفال ورشاشات مياه، كما يضم ملعب في الهواء الطلق ويوفر معدات الرياضات المائية للإيجار، كما يضم نادي Toots Club لرعاية الأطفال من سن 5- 12 عام تحت إشراف كامل من الموظفين.
  • منتجع وسپا سوفيتيل: يقع هذا المنتجع على بعد دقيقتين من الشاطئ، ويضم مجموعة من الغرف والأجنحة التي تتميز بديكور مستوحى من حديقة لوكسمبورغ في باريس. وتوفر الغرف والأجنحة الفاخرة لوازم استحمام من ماركة لانفين، بينما تتميز الفيلات بمنتجات هيرمس الحصرية. ويمكن للمسافرين بغرض الأعمال الاستفادة من مركز الأعمال الأكثر حداثة والذي يقع قبالة خلفية بحر الصين الجنوبي ومجهز بأحدث التقنيات.
  • منتجع سيلوسوبيتش: يقع المنتجع على بعد دقيقتين من الشاطئ، ويمكن الوصول إلى محطة مترو هاربورفرونت في غضون 10 دقائق بالحافلة المكوكية. ويضم المنتجع مسبح في الهواء في الطلق لمياه الينابيع وسبا حيث يمكنك الاستمتاع بجلسات المساج. كما يوفر المنتجع خدمات الغسيل للملابس والتنظيف الجاف، ويضم مقهى سيلوسو المواجه للبحر الذي يقدم الأطباق المحلية.

الاستدامة

Sentosa Development Corporation (SDC) has developed a sustainability plan to safeguard the environment and to conserve Sentosa's heritage assets. In fact, many parts of Sentosa still retain her original tranquil and lush environment - driven by the corporation's land-use policy of maintaining 60% of the island as green and open spaces (natural area reduced to about 25% by 2014).

Efforts are made to raise awareness among both visitors and staff of the island regarding environmental issues and sustainable tourism. This is done via regular campaigns and educational talks.

Key sustainability-related achievements include:

  • Sentosa was shortlisted as a Sustainable Tourism Destination finalist in the World Travel and Tourism Council's "Tourism for Tomorrow" Awards in 2013.[34]
  • The island is home to some 30 heritage trees (listed in the National Parks Board's Heritage Tree Register[35]) and over 20 conserved colonial buildings, some of which date back to the 1800s.
  • Singapore's only fully restored coastal military fort, Fort Siloso.
  • Several Green Mark-certified[36] buildings such as Sentosa Cove Village, Sentosa Family Entertainment Centre, W Hotel,[37] and Resorts World Sentosa. The Green Mark is awarded by Singapore's Building and Construction Authority to buildings that fulfill specific environmentally friendly criteria.
  • An eco-hotel, Siloso Beach Resort.[38]
  • Developing the Sentosa Boardwalk,[39] which is a covered pedestrian walkway with various sustainability features, to connect the island with the Singapore mainland. Guests are encouraged to use the Boardwalk to enter and exit Sentosa as it leaves a minimal carbon footprint.
  • Partnering with Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to testbed Singapore's first low-flow tidal turbine[40] at the Sentosa Boardwalk.
  • Community-giving initiatives such as an annual "Sentosa Gives" initiative[41] in September, which sees more than 1,500 children, teenagers and seniors from the participating voluntary welfare organizations, schools and charities benefiting from the many activities planned for them. The corporation also offers island entry concessions to charity groups throughout the year.
A collage of Sentosa, with labels next to attractions pictured

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