India has now overtaken China in terms of number of visitors to Singapore. Indian tourists are the second highest number of visitors arriving in Singapore. Prior to Covid-19 pandemic, China had the highest number of tourists visiting the island nation.
A total number of 612,300 visitors from India arrived Singapore till November 2022, as per Singapore Tourism Board (STB) data. They also stay the longest with an average length of stay of 8.61 days compared with an average of 5.19 days. For comparison, Indonesians on average stayed 4.66 days, Malaysians for 4.28 days and Australians for 4.05 days. Indonesia is the largest source of foreign visitors to Singapore with 986,900 visitors up till November, while Malaysia is in third place with 495,470, followed by Australia (476,480) and the Philippines (325,480).
The number of foreign arrivals in Singapore reached 5.37 million. In July this year, the Singapore Tourism Board said that Singapore expected to receive between 4 and 6 million visitors in 2022. With China announcing that it will finally allow its citizens to travel abroad again, it looks like 2023 will see Singapore tourism reach a new post-pandemic level.