On 18th January 2012, our lecturers and students from our Post Graduate Diploma in Hospitality Management (PGDHM) visited one of the oldest theme parks in Singapore, THE HAW PAR VILLA (Chinese: 虎豹別墅). Together, the lecturers and students spent the entire afternoon at the HAW PAR VILLA understanding the theme park runs and operates its daily activities and how they market and advertise this tourist attraction, as part of their project and assignment.

Our lecturers gave the students a guided tour to various popular attractions in the theme park, such as "the Ten Courts of Hell exhibit" and "The Journey to The West". The students were also given a mini history lesson about Haw Par Villa, its glorious past and how this theme park is currently being marketed.

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About Haw Par Villa
Haw Par Villa (Chinese: 虎豹別墅) is a Chinese mythological theme park in Singapore, located along Pasir Panjang Road. The park contains over 1,000 statues and 150 giant dioramas depicting scenes from Chinese folklore, legends, history and illustrations of various aspects of Confucianism. The attractions include statues of the Laughing Buddha and the Goddess of Mercy, as well as dioramas of scenes from Journey to the West. The most well-known attraction is the Ten Courts of Hell, with gruesome depictions of hell in Chinese mythology, all set in a 60 meter-long trail of a Dragon.

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