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species, and features over 7,000 trees and shrubs ecosystems. Despite its relatively small size, Singapore
continues it invest and innovate in new theme attractions of many different types, scales and timeline. In this way, Singapore continues to position itself as a leading destination in the fastest growing leisure region globally.
Rainforest Wild Asia Karst Climbing
accommodations, opened in April 2025. The fifth attraction at the Reserve, Rainforest Wild Asia is a brand-new zoological park/ rainforest environment. The park opened 12 March 2025 and offers challenging adventure rock climbing, caving and bungee jumping experiences on an upcharge basis. The immersive experience blends wildlife encounters, exotic animals in natural habitats with physical exploration across eight themed zones, including: • The Karsts
• The Cavern Caves, with subterranean trails.
• Forest Floor up close encounters with deer, tortoises, and mousedeer along river streams.
• Rock Cascade home to tigers, dholes, and predator-prey exhibits.
• The Canopy treetop views and rare monkey sightings.
The park spans 13 hectares, houses 36 animal
New Trends China “Public Green Space Economy” In China, local governments have invested considerably in creating new public parks and public green spaces as part of massive city urbanization. The cost to maintain these municipal parks is challenging in a time of declining local government revenues due to the poor property market. In the current context, municipal parks need to generate revenue to achieve their own income balance to reduce their financial burden. Many of these municipal parks are in the central
area of the city and have a significant foot traffic volume, which is an advantage. They may be a large green open space, or a community park, or even a pocket park on a street corner. These parks are located near established business districts in the city, the convenient location determines that the park itself has excellent commercial value. A recent trend is for local governments to "do
business in parks". At a time when e-shopping is so convenient, the trend of offline business towards "experiential" and "interactive" development is becoming stronger. The green open space of
urban parks presents an excellent environment to stimulate local consumption, create jobs and economic impact.
divided into three categories: profitable facilities, public facilities, and open spaces without facilities.
renovation of parks and the construction and operation of profitable facilities, and for the daily repair and maintenance of public facilities such as squares, landscape planting, roads, fountains, etc. Local governments and public groups may provide up to 50% of the funds for new development but are then free from ongoing maintenance costs. The types of economic activities now showing up
in parks include. • Commercial uses mostly food & beverages. These often use cargo containers to create
• Rental services such as camping tent rental • Sports activities such as adventure parks with rope courses
• Themed events and festivals; •
Local government in China are getting creative
in finding ways to work with local private business activated with better services and offerings while operation and maintenance cost are shifted to the private sector.
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