Singapore’s 1.29-million November visitors, up 4.8 percent year-on-year, took the city-state’s overseas-arrivals tally for the first 11 months to 15.55 million, up 2.7 percent year-on-year.
That is according to the latest statistics from the Singapore Tourism Board (STB).
November overnight-visitor volume was also up 4.8 percent on the prior-year period, at 953,200, or nearly 74 percent of all arrivals. But over the calendar year to November 30, the overnighter tally was flat, at 11.50 million.
November’s average length of stay dipped 6.7 percent year-on-year, to 3.30 days. Average stay for the January to November period was 3.49 days, down 2.2 percent year-on-year.
An element in Singapore’s tourism offer is its casino-resort duopoly, consisting of Resorts World Sentosa, run by a unit of Genting Singapore Ltd, and Marina Bay Sands, run by a unit of Las Vegas Sands Corp.
The city-state’s top three visitor source markets in the first 11 months of this year were the same places as registered in October data. The tally for the year to November 30 was: China (2.93 million), Indonesia (2.20 million), and Malaysia (1.16 million).
Compared to a year ago, the visitor tally for the China segment grew by 1.4 percent and that for Malaysia grew by 7.3 percent. The visitor tally for the Indonesia segment has though declined by 1.3 percent.
Out of those top-three source markets, China was the only one where visitors’ average stay length – which reached 3.74 days – was above the 3.49-days’ international-market average.
The STB said previously that it expected the city-state’s 2025 full-year visitor arrivals to reach between 17.0 million and 18.5 million, bringing in approximately SGD29.0 billion (US$22.5 billion) to SGD30.5 billion in tourism receipts.
