07/02/2026
For the last 15 years A+B Tourism Training Hub has continued the tradition we started in the late 1990s – sharing our knowledge with our peers.
With the introduction of the 21-hour PDC requirement, our sharing became structured courses with a variety of topics and themes broadening the knowledge of Singapore’s Tourist Guides.
We assembled a team of trained facilitators from the guides in our midst and looked elsewhere for specialists, able to share and enrich the first line of Tourism Ambassadors. We not only poured our passion, heart and soul into our courses, but making them affordable and appropriate, we had to top-up from our own pocket to make ends meet more than once. We did this because we saw the need and we felt obliged to provide good and affordable sessions – our passion for the profession as our guide.
Times are changing and so is the Tourism Industry; and with changes come new requirements. From March 2026 onwards, guides will ‘do and learn’ with no limitation to course selection and time spend learning. These changes implemented by STB will make it difficult for us to compete with free offerings, online talks and other options.
After a long and painful soul-searching, fighting hard with the two hearts beating in our chests –we have decided to call it ‘the end of the line’ – A+B Tourism Training Hub will officially close its doors for good!
Mr Singh and I would like to take the opportunity to thank our dedicated and trusted team of facilitators for their dedication, hard work and unwavering passion which they have put into all their sessions.
Thank you also to all our colleagues – the many guides – that joined us for the PDCs in Singapore, Malacca and even Penang. Your participation, enthusiasm and fun-loving ways made every course unique and special!
As the new rules may come with new opportunities, we might -from time to time - send out messages for shorter session without SSG funding to keep in touch and provide some insights in new or unusual topics! As they say – if one door closes another might open!
Attached a Walk Down Memory Lane! Enjoy!
Cheers,
Angie Lau