Singapore saw a 6.8-percent year-on-year decline in the number of overnight visitors in September, at 883,130, according to the latest statistics from the Singapore Tourism Board (STB).
Overnight visitors made up nearly 71 percent of Singapore’s overall visitor arrivals in September, at 1.25 million. The latter tally was also down by 1.3 percent year-on-year.
September saw the lowest single-month visitor tally year-to-date; while January, July and August marked the highest, each at above 1.6 million.
The September figures took the city-state’s visitor arrivals from all international markets to 12.88 million for the first nine months of this year, representing a growth of 2.3 percent year-on-year. The number of overnight visitors for the period reached 9.52 million, flat compared to a year ago.
Average stay length of Singapore’s visitors was 3.52 days for the January to September period, down by 1.6 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 nine months of this year were: China (2.5 million), Indonesia (1.84 million) and Malaysia (931,850). Compared to a year ago, the visitor tallies for the China and Indonesia segments were flat; though that for Malaysia grew 6.5 percent.
Out of those top three source markets, China was the only one where visitors’ average stay length – which reached 3.78 days – was above that of all international markets.
The number of visitors from China for the first nine months of this year was equivalent to 87.7 percent of the same period in 2019, when it supplied 2.85 million visitors to the city-state, according to the STB’s data.
