{"id":777025549,"date":"2025-04-22T02:20:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T05:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777025549"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:41:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:41:32","slug":"singapore-tourism-numbers-dip-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/singapore-tourism-numbers-dip-in-march","title":{"rendered":"Singapore tourism numbers dip in March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The number of visitors was down by 5.8 per cent sequentially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Singapore.-\u00a0The Singapore Tourism Board (STB)\u00a0<\/strong>has reported that the country received\u00a01.30 million visitors<\/strong> in March. That’s a 5.8 per cent decrease\u00a0sequentially<\/a>\u00a0and an 11.5 per cent drop year-on-year. There were\u00a0932,530 overnight visitors<\/strong>, a 17.1 per cent decline compared to last year and an 11.85 per cent drop sequentially. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singapore\u00a0received 4.31 million visitors in the first quarter, flat against 2024. Some 3.17 million were overnight visitors, down by 3.3 per cent. The average length of stay was 3.49 days, up 1.2 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The country received 1.30 million visitors in March.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The largest number of visitors came from China (831,470, up 5.8 per cent when compared to last year and 86.6 per cent recovery of the same period in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic). Indonesia was the second-biggest source market with 640,260 arrivals, down 3.7 per cent to 88.3 per cent of 2019 levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malaysia ranked third, providing 312,220 arrivals, down 0.5 per cent year-on-year but up 10.2 per cent compared to the same period in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singapore GDP rises in Q1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Singapore\u2019s Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) has reported that the country\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 3.8 per cent year-on-year<\/a> in the first quarter of the year. The growth was slower than the 5 per cent increase recorded in the previous quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In quarter-on-quarter terms, the economy contracted by 0.8 per cent after the 0.5 per cent expansion in the fourth quarter of 2024. This was due to sequential declines in manufacturing and some outward-oriented services sectors such as finance and insurance along with slowing external demand.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Macau’s The 13 Hotel back on sale<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The number of visitors was down by 5.8 per cent sequentially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21791,"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 sequential decline of 5.8% in visitor arrivals for March, with Q1 2024 visitor numbers remaining flat year-on-year. Concurrently, the nation's Q1 GDP growth decelerated to 3.8% year-on-year, contracting 0.8% quarter-on-quarter due to declines in manufacturing and outward-oriented services, signaling potential headwinds for tourism-dependent sectors including integrated resorts.","focusai_entities":"Singapore Tourism Board, Ministry of Trade and Industry","focusai_location":"Singapore, China, Indonesia, Malaysia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.85), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on IR GGR?","query":"How do these sequential declines in visitor arrivals and decelerated GDP growth specifically correlate with the Q1 GGR performance of Singapore's integrated resorts?"},{"label":"Capital Allocation Shift?","query":"Will the observed economic slowdown in Singapore influence capital allocation strategies or expansion plans for major gaming and hospitality groups in the APAC region?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[169],"class_list":["post-777025549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-singapore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777025549","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=777025549"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777025549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777025586,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777025549\/revisions\/777025586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777025549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777025549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777025549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}