The tower was completed in 2004, and is owned by C. Melchers GmbH & Co. At ground level, visitors enter a large disc-shaped air-conditioned cabin fitted with glass windows all round.

Sky Tower Pte Ltd is a project conceived by Melchers Project Management Pte Ltd.[1] Melchers Project Management, being the managing shareholder of Sky Tower Pte Ltd, runs the daily operations of the Carlsberg Sky Tower in close co-operation with Sentosa Leisure Group (SLG).

[3] On 12 August 2017, the tower stopped due to a mechanical fault, leaving 39 people stranded more than 4 hours.

They were rescued after the Sky Tower's engineers were assisted with the manual winching to lower the gondola.

[4] The Tiger Sky Tower resumed operations after conducting numerous test rides on 25 November 2017.