Singapore tourism numbers drop in February
The number of visitors was down by 15.3 per cent sequentially.
Singapore.- The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has reported that the country received 1.38 million visitors in February. That’s a 2.9 per cent decrease sequentially and a 15.3 per cent drop in year-on-year terms.
There were 1.05 million overnight visitors. That’s a 2.4 per cent decline compared to last year and an 11.8 per cent drop sequentially. The largest number of visitors came from China (267,960, down 18 per cent when compared to last year). Indonesia was the second-biggest source market with 192,600 arrivals, up 1 per cent. Malaysia ranked third, providing 105,740 arrivals, up 5.7 per cent year-on-year. Chinese visitors had the longest average stay length at 4.16 days. Across all international source markets, the average was 3.47 days.
The STB reported that Singapore received 3.01 million visitors in the first two months of the year. That’s an increase of 6.1 per cent when compared to the same period last year and 96.5 per cent of the number for the same period in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic. For 2025, the STB expects international visitor arrivals to reach between 17.0 to 18.5 million, bringing in approximately SG$29.0 to SG$30.5bn in tourism receipts.
