Singapore saw a 5.1-percent year-on-year decline in visitor arrivals from abroad in April, led by a drop in volume of visitors from the key inbound markets including Indonesia, Australia, India and Malaysia, show the latest data from Singapore Tourism Board (STB).
Neighbouring Indonesia showed the sharpest year-on-year downturn in volume, at nearly 31 percent, though the aggregate from the Chinese mainland rose year-on-year.
Singapore’s overall April arrivals tallied 1.33 million, the lowest monthly figure so far this year. April overnight visitors accounted for 933,840 arrivals, a 7.9-percent year-on-year decline.
Average stay length across all international markets was 3.36 days in April, a 2.1-percent shortening year-on-year.
The continuing top-five markets for the city-state’s inbound tourists in April were: mainland China (217,870), Indonesia (164,200), Australia (115,340), India (107,160) and Malaysia (99,300).
Of those five markets, all except mainland China recorded a year-on-year decline. The visitor arrivals from Indonesia – the second largest source market after mainland China – shrank by 30.7 percent year-on-year.
Visitors from mainland China expanded by 5.0 percent year-on-year in April.
Amongst the visitors from those five most significant inbound markets, only mainland China and India have average stay length that is higher than the international average at 3.36 days. In April, visitors from the Chinese mainland spent on average 3.46 days in Singapore, while those from India averaged 5.76 days.
Singapore Tourism Board’s latest monthly data took the city-state’s aggregate international visitor volume for the first four months of this year to 5.76 million, a 0.9 percent year-on-year increase.
In the January to April period, visitor arrivals from Malaysia and Australia respectively surpassed the equivalent period in 2019, the immediate trading year before Covid-19.
The Malaysia cohort tallied 438,090 during the first four months of this year; 15.8 percent up on the same period in 2019. The Australia segment, with 427,020 arrivals, was 15.3 percent higher than the same period in 2019.
The Chinese mainland, the top feeder market, supplied 1.13 million visitors in the January to April period, representing a nearly 90-percent recovery from the equivalent period in 2019.
