Singapore arrivals go past the 15-million mark in November

Singapore logged around 15.13 million visitor arrivals as of 30th November 2024, meaning that it has surpassed the lower range of the arrivals estimate for this year.

In November alone, Singapore clocked around 1.23 million arrivals, up by 12.2 percent year-on-year.

The November tally took Singapore’s inbound visitor volume for the first 11 months of this year, to 15.13 million, which represented 22.3 percent year-on-year growth.

The lower end of previous projections made by the Singapore Tourism Board was pegged at 15 million for full-year 2024, with the upper end at around 16.5 million.

The STB had estimated 2024 visitors would generate between SGD27.5 billion and SGD29 billion in tourist spending.

The STB also logged 909,510 overnight visitors in November, representing around 73.9 percent of Singapore’s 1.23 million visitor arrivals for that month. 

The average length of stay throughout the month was 3.54 days, a rise of 3.5 percent year-on-year.

A shift in source markets

As of 30th November, Indonesia overtook China as Singapore’s leading source of visitors.

Throughout the month, the city-state recorded 194,440 Indonesian arrivals. 

The other two prominent feeder markets were China with 174,750 and Malaysia with 101,920.

China dominated from January to November as China has been Singapore’s top source for inbound tourists. 

In that time frame, the city-state received 2.89 million Chinese visitors. That was an 86.27 percent recovery in the same period in 2019, prior to the pandemic, when Singapore received 3.35 million Chinese visitors.

Across the first 11 months, Indonesia was Singapore’s second-most important feeder market, supplying 2.22 million visitors to the city-state. 

The tally represented an 80.14 percent recovery versus the same period in 2019, when Singapore received 2.77 million Indonesian visitors.