Marina Bay Sands’ scale, success and bold expansion are a blessing and a curse for Singapore’s hotel sector

[SINGAPORE] The picture for Singapore’s hotel sector in the second quarter was not pretty. However, the sector’s performance in July showed improvement from the year-ago period.

In Q2 2025, the Republic’s hotels posted an average room rate (ARR) of S$263.83, down 1.1 per cent from the year-ago period’s S$266.89, according to Singapore Tourism Board (STB) data.

Average occupancy rate for hotels here slipped from 78.2 per cent in Q2 2024 to 77.8 per cent in the second quarter. As such, revenue per available room (RevPAR) fell 1.7 per cent to S$205.15 in Q2 2025, from S$208.77 in Q2 2024.