PHOTOS : Singapore's Jewel Changi Airport for You to Envy

Yeap, Changi airport will stop at nothing to be world's best airport. Singapore’s Changi International has been named the best airport in the world by leading consumer aviation website Skytrax, for 5 consecutive years. The mega hub has long been praised by travelers for its beautiful architecture, efficient operation, and luxurious amenities.

When its next big attraction, Jewel, opens in early 2019, it will showcase thrilling play equipment like sky nets and four different types of slides - features never seen before at other airports.

Jewel Changi Airport - a joint venture between Changi Airport Group and CapitaLand Mall Asia - will boast one of the largest indoor collections of plants in Singapore.

The development of Jewel comes as Changi Airport faces tough competition from airports in the region for transit and destination traffic.

It is no longer enough for an airport to just be a place for people to get onto a plane or to wave someone off.

Jewel Changi Airport | Business Insiders

This thinking is perhaps what prompted the Government to set up Changi Airport Group in 2009 - a corporate entity that would run the airport, under the regulatory eye of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore.

As a statutory board, it would have been impossible for Changi to justify spending $1.7 billion of taxpayers' monies on a lifestyle and retail hub, which will also feature a 40m-high indoor waterfall and about 300 shops and food and beverage outlets.

Changi is not alone in pushing the limits. Hong Kong is planning to develop a 25ha waterfront plot beside the Hong Kong International Airport into a lifestyle, family and entertainment centre. The first phase of Skycity is slated for completion between 2022 and 2025, giving Changi's Jewel the first-mover advantage.

Changi, which handled a record 58.7 million passengers last year - 30 per cent of which was transit traffic - hopes that Jewel will attract more tourists and other visitors to Singapore, as well as convince travellers to stop here on their way to other destinations.

Travellers aside, Jewel will provide another opportunity to create new bonds and memories for Singaporeans. After all, many of them see the airport as a source of national pride which holds a special place in their hearts.

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The Straits Times | Business Insider | Channel NewsAsia | The New Paper

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Akhyari Hananto

I began my career in the banking industry in 1997, and stayed approx 6 years in it. This industry boost his knowledge about the economic condition in Indonesia, both macro and micro, and how to More understand it. My banking career continued in Yogyakarta when I joined in a program funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB),as the coordinator for a program aimed to help improve the quality of learning and teaching process in private universities in Yogyakarta. When the earthquake stroke Yogyakarta, I chose to join an international NGO working in the area of ?disaster response and management, which allows me to help rebuild the city, as well as other disaster-stricken area in Indonesia. I went on to become the coordinator for emergency response in the Asia Pacific region. Then I was assigned for 1 year in Cambodia, as a country coordinator mostly to deliver developmental programs (water and sanitation, education, livelihood). In 2009, he continued his career as a protocol and HR officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Surabaya, and two years later I joined the Political and Economic Section until now, where i have to deal with extensive range of people and government officials, as well as private and government institution troughout eastern Indonesia. I am the founder and Editor-in-Chief in Good News From Indonesia (GNFI), a growing and influential social media movement, and was selected as one of The Most Influential Netizen 2011 by The Marketeers magazine. I also wrote a book on "Fundamentals of Disaster Management in 2007"?, "Good News From Indonesia : Beragam Prestasi Anak Bangsa di dunia"? which was luanched in August 2013, and "Indonesia Bersyukur"? which is launched in Sept 2013. In 2014, 3 books were released in which i was one of the writer; "Indonesia Pelangi Dunia"?, "Indonesia The Untold Stories"? and "Growing! Meretas Jalan Kejayaan" I give lectures to students in lectures nationwide, sharing on full range of issues, from economy, to diplomacy Less

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