Content as a Service v3 - generic-dx - Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 15:27
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global market sites aligned to deliver a consistent, scalable digital experience
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Helping travelers discover what moves them.
People visit Singapore for different reasons. Some come for wildlife parks and family attractions. Others for heritage neighborhoods, hawker centers, and nights out. Business travelers arrive for conferences and events that fill the calendar year-round.
Helping those visitors discover Singapore is central to the mission of the Singapore Tourism Board (STB). As Singapore’s lead government agency for tourism development, STB shapes how the world sees the city-state. Its Tourism 2040 roadmap sets out a long-term vision for sustainable growth, positioning Singapore as a world-class destination while creating meaningful opportunities for Singaporeans.
VisitSingapore.com sits at the center of that strategy. By engaging with site visitors, STB aims to use VisitSingapore.com to better understand what interests each visitor and provide experiences that are more relevant and tailored.
One destination, seven markets.
STB modernized VisitSingapore.com with Adobe Experience Manager Sites as a Cloud Service, creating a single content platform that supports its global digital presence. The redesigned site welcomes visitors with an immersive homepage autoplay video that immediately engages visitors in the Singapore experience. Streamlined navigation, interactive interest-based filters, richer storytelling, and personalized itineraries make it easier for visitors to discover relevant experiences and explore Singapore in ways that match how they travel.
For solo travelers, that might mean self-guided heritage trails and social events that offer opportunities to connect with fellow explorers. Families can discover attractions such as Sentosa and Mandai Wildlife Reserve alongside nearby dining recommendations, while groups of friends can explore nightlife and adventure activities. By helping users find experiences and resources that address their needs, STB helps move them from browsing to booking, arriving in Singapore with an itinerary they’re genuinely excited about.
STB’s global site serves as the authoritative source for destination content, automatically distributing content updates across seven market sites through an integration with a translation vendor’s cloud platform. Now, STB can publish content once and push it out globally, with the flexibility to tailor content for individual markets.
Moving VisitSingapore.com to the cloud has also helped manage resource constraints for STB. As VisitSingapore.com evolved, managing an on-premises environment required increasing time and effort from developers, who regularly carried out security scans, applied patches, and maintained the supporting infrastructure. Much of that responsibility was lifted by moving to Experience Manager Sites as a Cloud Service, allowing the team to focus more of their time on improving the user experience on the site. As a result of the migration, STB improved page performance by up to 3%, saved approximately 20 developer days of regression testing each year with automated version upgrades and cut infrastructure maintenance costs by 20%.
Adobe Professional Services led the migration from on-premises to cloud, while the Adobe Ultimate Success team provided strategic guidance and best-practice advisory support throughout the journey. Together, the teams completed the migration in four months with no disruption to site visitors. Following go-live, the Ultimate Success team has continued to partner with STB to explore additional solutions to strengthen its data foundation and prepare for emerging AI-powered capabilities.
Learning from every journey.
Every interaction on VisitSingapore.com helps STB better understand what travelers are looking for. The team can see which pages capture the attention of different audiences and how those interests vary from one market to another using Adobe Analytics. For example, STB can identify whether certain traveler segments spend more time exploring heritage districts or family attractions, helping the team better understand what inspires different visitors.
These insights also enable STB to assess how personalization influences visitor behavior. One example is its trip recommendations feature, which delivers relevant itineraries based on traveler archetypes such as solo explorers, groups of friends, and families with children. Visitors who use the feature spend more than three times longer on the site than the average visitor, demonstrating the value of personalized content in driving deeper engagement and destination discovery.
Privacy-ready marketing.
The insights STB gains from VisitSingapore.com don’t stop at the website. As browser-based tracking becomes less reliable, the organization has evolved its approach to audience activation.
STB uses Adobe Real-Time CDP Connections to share customer engagement data directly with advertising platforms, reducing its reliance on browser-based tracking. This gives the organization more reliable audience insights and remarketing opportunities, while adapting to changing privacy expectations.
Looking ahead, STB is focused on keeping VisitSingapore.com relevant and effective in a rapidly evolving digital and AI-driven landscape. As the official destination website, VisitSingapore.com aims to provide site visitors with a comprehensive guide of experiences tailored to their interests, while encouraging a wider exploration of Singapore’s many other offerings.
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