Singapore logged round 15.13 million customer arrivals as of thirtieth November 2024, which means that it has surpassed the decrease vary of the arrivals estimate for this yr.
In November alone, Singapore clocked round 1.23 million arrivals, up by 12.2 % year-on-year.
The November tally took Singapore’s inbound customer quantity for the first 11 months of this yr, to fifteen.13 million, which represented 22.3 % year-on-year progress.
The decrease finish of earlier projections made by the Singapore Tourism Board was pegged at 15 million for full-year 2024, with the higher finish at round 16.5 million.
The STB had estimated 2024 guests would generate between SGD27.5 billion and SGD29 billion in vacationer spending.
The STB additionally logged 909,510 in a single day guests in November, representing round 73.9 % of Singapore’s 1.23 million customer arrivals for that month.
The common size of keep all through the month was 3.54 days, an increase of three.5 % year-on-year.
A shift in supply markets
As of thirtieth November, Indonesia overtook China as Singapore’s main supply of tourists.
Throughout the month, the city-state recorded 194,440 Indonesian arrivals.
The different two outstanding feeder markets had been China with 174,750 and Malaysia with 101,920.
China dominated from January to November as China has been Singapore’s prime supply for inbound vacationers.
In that time-frame, the city-state obtained 2.89 million Chinese guests. That was an 86.27 % restoration in the identical interval in 2019, previous to the pandemic, when Singapore obtained 3.35 million Chinese guests.
Across the first 11 months, Indonesia was Singapore’s second-most essential feeder market, supplying 2.22 million guests to the city-state.
The tally represented an 80.14 % restoration versus the identical interval in 2019, when Singapore obtained 2.77 million Indonesian guests.
