Singapore recorded 1.18 million international visitor arrivals in June, down 4.9 percent year-on-year. It was also the lowest monthly tally throughout the first half of this year, according to the latest data from the Singapore Tourism Board (STB).
Overnight visitors accounted for 850,380 arrivals in June, down by 8.0 percent from a year ago. Average length of stay across all international markets was 3.59 days, down 3.0 percent year-on-year.
Singapore’s tourism offer includes a casino duopoly consisting of the Resorts World Sentosa property of Genting Singapore Ltd, and Marina Bay Sands, controlled by Las Vegas Sands Corp.
The city-state’s June arrival numbers took first-half international visitor arrivals to 8.19 million, down 1.7 percent year-on-year. Around 72.6 percent of those overall arrivals – or 5.95 million – were overnight visitors, a cohort that saw a 3.1 percent year-on-year decline.
Out of the top source markets for the January to June period, arrivals from China and Malaysia each showed single-digit percentage growth year-on-year. Arrivals from Indonesia and India respectively, declined.
China remained the top source for Singapore’s arrivals for the first half, supplying 1.53 million visitors, up 3.7 percent year-on-year.
Indonesia – the second-largest market– supplied 1.15 million visitors to the city-state in the January to June period, down 10.6 percent.
The first-half tally of visitor arrivals from Malaysia (644,660) represented a 1.7-percent year-on-year increase. The aggregate of visitors from Australia (605,970) was flat. India’s contribution was down 6.6 percent, to 604,530.
Of those five top feeder markets, only visitors from China and India had an average stay length that was higher than the average 3.44 days seen across all international arrivals.
Stay length of visitors from China averaged 3.65 days, while those from India logged on average 6.14 days.
The reported January to June visitor tally represents circa 48.2 percent of the tourism authority’s lower-end full-year forecast of 17 million arrivals, which it announced in a February update on the status of the inbound-tourism sector.
The forecast of 17 million to 18 million visitor arrivals for full-year 2026 implies annual growth of between 0.6 percent and 6.5 percent.
