{"id":777018915,"date":"2024-09-10T09:48:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T12:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777018915"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:17:38","slug":"singapore-receives-1-54-million-visitors-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/singapore-receives-1-54-million-visitors-in-august","title":{"rendered":"Singapore receives 1.54 million visitors in August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The number of visitors was down 3.75 per cent sequentially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Singapore.- The Singapore Tourism Board (STB)\u00a0has reported that the country received 1.54 million visitors in August. That\u2019s a 17.3 per cent increase in year-on-year terms but <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/singapore-receives-1-60-million-visitors-in-july\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a decline of 3.75 per cent sequentially<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the total arrivals, 403,120 were from China, up 87.1 per cent year-on-year. Indonesia was the second largest source market, supplying 163,910 visitors. India was third, supplying 91,800. Tourists from India had the longest average length of stay at 6.15 days, followed by tourists from China (4.07 days). The average stay for all international source markets was 3.66 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first eight months of the year, Singapore received 11.32 million tourists. The figure was up 25.5 per cent in year-on-year terms and represented nearly 88 per cent of pre-Covid-19 levels in 2019. From January to August, China was the top source market, with 2.26m visits, 86.9 per cent of 2019 levels. In February, China and Singapore 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>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of visitors was down 3.75 per cent sequentially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17040,"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's tourism sector reported 1.54 million visitors in August, marking a 17.3% year-on-year increase but a 3.75% sequential decline. China remains the leading source market, significantly bolstered by a mutual visa exemption agreement, contributing to 11.32 million visitors year-to-date and nearing pre-pandemic levels.","focusai_entities":"Singapore Tourism Board","focusai_location":"Singapore, China, Indonesia, India","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IR GGR Impact","query":"What is the projected impact of the sequential decline in August visitor numbers on the Q3 GGR performance of Singapore's integrated resorts, particularly considering the strong year-on-year growth from key markets like China?"},{"label":"Visa Exemption Effect","query":"How is the 30-day mutual visa exemption agreement between China and Singapore expected to influence the long-term visitor volume and average length of stay from the Chinese market, and what are the implications for future capital expenditure by integrated resort operators?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[23632,23907],"class_list":["post-777018915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-integrated-resorts","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777018915","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=777018915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777018915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777018946,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777018915\/revisions\/777018946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777018915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777018915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777018915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}