Singapore saw a 9.0-percent year-on-year rise in visitor arrivals from abroad in February, led by 61.3-percent volume growth from the city-state’s top feeder market, mainland China, show the latest data from Singapore Tourism Board (STB).
February arrivals tallied 1.50 million, though that was flat sequentially. Overnight visitors accounted for 1.11 million of them, a 6.2-percent year-on-year increase.
Average stay length across all international markets was 3.39 days in February, a 2.3-percent shortening year-on-year.
The top-five markets for the city-state’s inbound tourists in February were: mainland China (432,330), Indonesia (167,040), Malaysia (90,210), Australia (80,750) and South Korea (65,670).
Out of those five markets, only the cohort from mainland China registered year-on-year growth. Visitors from there had an average stay length of 3.69 days, surpassing the average across all international markets. Mainlanders’ stay length was nonetheless down 11.4-percent year-on-year.
On the Chinese mainland, the lunar new year holiday this time ran for nine days, from February 15 to February 23 inclusive. In 2025, it was an eight-day holiday there, from January 28 to February 4, 2025, inclusive.
Prior to the latest lunar new year festive season, Chinese diplomatic missions in a number of Asia-Pacific casino jurisdictions – including Singapore – had issued to their travelling citizens, a ‘stay away from gambling’ warning.
Singapore Tourism Board’s latest monthly data took the city-state’s aggregate international visitor volume for the first two months of this year to 3.00 million, flat from the previous year.
During the January to February period, the top-five markets for Singapore’s inbound tourists were: China (704,280), Indonesia (385,480), Australia (221,530), Malaysia (206,890) and India (151,040). Amongst those markets, only those from mainland China showed a year-on-year growth, across the two months, at 9.3 percent.
