{"id":777048639,"date":"2026-10-15T08:21:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777048639"},"modified":"2026-10-15T08:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:21:19","slug":"singapore-visitor-arrivals-down-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/singapore-visitor-arrivals-down-in-september","title":{"rendered":"Singapore visitor arrivals down in September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The city-state saw 1.23 million international arrivals in the ninth month of 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Singapore.- The Singapore Tourism Board (STB)<\/strong> has reported 1.23 million international visitor arrivals during September. That’s a decline of 2.2 per cent from a year earlier and down from 1.61 million in August<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

January-September arrivals were 12.65 million, down 1.7 per cent from the same period in 2025. Overnight visitors accounted for 72.9 per cent of the total, after falling 3.3 per cent year on year. The average length of stay was 3.42 days, down 2.8 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mainland China<\/strong> remained Singapore\u2019s biggest visitor market in the January-September period. Chinese visitor numbers increased 4.8 per cent compared to the same period 2025. Indonesia was the second-largest market with 1.66 million arrivals, followed by Malaysia with 933,820, Australia with 926,570 and India with 868,490. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The year-to-date figure puts Singapore at about 74.4 per cent of the lower end of the STB\u2019s 2026 target of 17 million to 18 million international visitor arrivals. The country received 16.9 million visitors in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singapore has two integrated resorts with casinos, Resorts World Sentosa and Marina Bay Sands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Singapore visitor arrivals rebound in July but remain behind 2025 figures<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The city-state saw 1.23 million international arrivals in the ninth month of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777032643,"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 international visitor arrivals declined in September and year-to-date 2026, falling short of the Singapore Tourism Board's annual targets. This downturn, particularly in overnight stays and average length of stay, signals potential headwinds for the non-gaming and gaming revenues of the city-state's integrated resorts, Resorts World Sentosa and Marina Bay Sands. The data suggests a challenging operational environment impacting overall GGR and NGR projections for these key gaming verticals.","focusai_entities":"Singapore Tourism Board, Resorts World Sentosa, Marina Bay Sands","focusai_location":"Singapore, Mainland China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, India","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IR Revenue Impact?","query":"What is the projected impact of these declining visitor arrival metrics on the Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) of Singapore's integrated resorts for the remainder of 2026?"},{"label":"STB Target Revisions?","query":"Given the current trajectory, what are the Singapore Tourism Board's revised forecasts for international visitor arrivals, and what mitigation strategies are being considered to meet the 2026 targets?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[169,24680],"class_list":["post-777048639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-singapore","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777048639","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777048639"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777048639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777048660,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777048639\/revisions\/777048660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777032643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777048639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777048639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777048639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}