Singapore recorded 1.38 million visitor arrivals in February, a monthly tally down 15.3 percent sequentially, and also down 2.9 percent from a year ago, according to the latest update from the Singapore Tourism Board (STB).
Around 76 percent of the 1.38 million visitor arrivals – i.e., 1.05 million – were overnight visitors, STB’s latest statistics show. The February overnight-visitor cohort declined 11.8 percent from January, and down 2.4 percent from the same month in 2024.
The top three source markets for Singapore’s inbound visits in February, were, respectively: China (267,960), Indonesia (192,600) and Malaysia (105,740).
Among those segments, Chinese visitors had the longest average stay length, at 4.16 days. Across all international source markets, the average was 3.47 days.
However, the number of Chinese visitor arrivals logged in February was down 18.0 percent year-on-year; while the tally of those from Indonesia and Malaysia increased, respectively, by nearly 1 percent and 5.7 percent, STB’s data show.
For the first two months of this year combined, Singapore received in aggregate 3.01 million visitor arrivals, up 6.1 percent year-on-year. The figure represented a 96.5-percent recovery compared to the same period in 2019, the trading year immediately before the Covid-19 pandemic.
STB had forecast that for 2025, the number of international visitor arrivals in the city-state would be in the range of 17.0 million to 18.5 million.
Singapore has a casino duopoly consisting of Resorts World Sentosa, run by Genting Singapore Ltd, and Marina Bay Sands Ltd, run by a unit of Las Vegas Sands Corp.
