Singapore tourist arrivals grow for 7th straight month in August to 728,744

SINGAPORE’S international visitor arrivals grew for the 7th straight month in August, once again setting a record from the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, based on the latest figures from the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) on Wednesday (Sep 14).

There were 728,744 arrivals in August, slightly higher than the 726,602 visitors recorded in July, though the new figure remains far below the 1.7 million recorded in August 2019 before the pandemic.

“The slowdown in growth could be due to seasonality factors,” said Wong Xian Yang, head of research at Cushman and Wakefield Singapore. “Pre-pandemic, visitor arrivals tend to peak in June or July and trend lower during the months of August to November and pick up sharply again in December.”