Visitor arrivals grew by 115.8 per cent in year-on-year terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Singapore.- The Singapore Tourism Board (STB)<\/strong> has reported that Singapore registered 13.61m visitor arrivals in 2023. This figure was up 115.8 per cent in year-on-year terms and was equivalent to 71.2 per cent of pre-pandemic levels in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Overnight visitors reached 10.25 million, a 119.3 per cent increase from the prior year. The average length fell by 24.9 per cent to 3.79 days. Indonesia and China remained the primary tourism contributors, with 2.30 million and 1.36 million visitors. Malaysia and Australia were joint third with 1.09 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n China and Singapore have launched\u00a0a 30-day mutual visa exemption agreement<\/a>, set to commence on February 9, coinciding with the start of the Chinese New Year. The plan had been announced in December<\/a>\u00a0and follows China\u2019s resumption of a 15-day visa-free entry scheme for Singaporean citizens last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Visitor arrivals grew by 115.8 per cent in year-on-year terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Singapore reported a significant 115.8% year-on-year increase in visitor arrivals for 2023, reaching 13.61 million, which represents 71.2% of pre-pandemic levels. This growth was primarily driven by visitors from Indonesia and China, with a new 30-day mutual visa exemption agreement between China and Singapore poised to further stimulate inbound tourism from February 9.","focusai_entities":"Singapore Tourism Board (STB), China, Singapore","focusai_location":"Singapore, Indonesia, China, Malaysia, Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), operator_casino (0.85), regulator (0.7), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Singapore's integrated resorts stemming from the 2023 visitor arrival surge and the new China-Singapore mutual visa exemption agreement?"},{"label":"Market Recovery Trajectory","query":"How does Singapore's tourism recovery to 71.2% of pre-pandemic levels position its integrated resort market relative to other major Asian gaming jurisdictions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[23632],"class_list":["post-777012809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-integrated-resorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777012809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777012842,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012809\/revisions\/777012842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777012809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777012809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777012809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}