Tourist arrivals in Singapore from China are climbing back to pre-COVID-19 levels, with the number crossing the 200,000 mark for the first time since January 2020 last month. But travel agents say that they are struggling to cope with the increasing number of bookings being made by these visitors. Claudia Lim reports.
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