{"id":777013002,"date":"2024-02-08T10:13:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T13:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777013002"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:13:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:13:41","slug":"singapore-received-1-44-million-visitors-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/singapore-received-1-44-million-visitors-in-january","title":{"rendered":"Singapore received 1.44 million visitors in January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Visitor arrivals grew by 54.2 per cent in year-on-year terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Singapore.-\u00a0The <strong>Singapore Tourism Board (STB)<\/strong>\u00a0has reported that Singapore registered 1.44m visitor arrivals in January. This figure was up 54.2 per cent in year-on-year terms and up 16.1 per cent when compared to December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the total visitor arrivals, 43.6 per cent were overnight visitors, a 26 per cent increase from the previous month. The average length of stay decreased by 20.1 per cent year-on-year, to 3.45 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indonesia was the largest source market, followed by mainland China, which saw a year-on-year growth rate of 644.2 per cent. Australia came in third, with 124,140 visitors. Out of these three markets, visitors from mainland China stayed the longest in Singapore, with an average stay of 3.73 days in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China and Singapore have launched\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/singapore-and-china-announce-reciprocal-30-day-visa-free-entry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a 30-day mutual visa exemption agreement<\/a>, set to commence tomorrow (February 9).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/singapore-and-china-plan-reciprocal-30-day-visa-free-entry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">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\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:&nbsp;<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/singapore-received-13-61-million-visitors-in-2023\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Singapore received 13.61 million visitors in 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities have predicted visitor arrivals for 2024 could reach 15 million to 16 million, bringing in SG$26bn (US$19.4bn) to SG$27.5bn in tourism receipts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitor arrivals grew by 54.2 per cent in year-on-year terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":15128,"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 recorded 1.44 million visitor arrivals in January, a 54.2% year-on-year increase, with mainland China showing exceptional growth and becoming the second-largest source market. This surge, coupled with a new 30-day mutual visa exemption agreement with China, positions Singapore to meet its 2024 tourism receipt projections of SG$26bn-SG$27.5bn, significantly impacting integrated resort GGR.","focusai_entities":"Singapore Tourism Board","focusai_location":"Singapore, Indonesia, China, Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"China visitor impact?","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Singapore's integrated resorts specifically attributable to the increased visitor arrivals from mainland China and the new mutual visa exemption agreement?"},{"label":"IR operational adjustments?","query":"How are Singapore's integrated resort operators adjusting their B2C marketing, staffing, and gaming vertical allocations to capitalize on the significant increase in visitor arrivals, particularly from key source markets?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[23907],"class_list":["post-777013002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013002","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=777013002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777013029,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013002\/revisions\/777013029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777013002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777013002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777013002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}