Singapore tourist arrivals climb, continue to surpass one million in April

SINGAPORE’S international visitor arrivals continued to exceed one million in April, for the second straight month this year and the second time since the pandemic began in 2020.

Tourism arrivals jumped to 1.13 million in April, up from 1.02 million recorded in the preceding month, based on the latest figures from the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) on Monday (May 22). The month’s arrival numbers set a new post-pandemic record, even though it remained below the 1.7 million visitors recorded in January 2020, before the pandemic.

Mainland China was again in fifth place as a top source of visitors in April, with 90,725 visitors hailing from there, compared with 60,888 in March. At 49 per cent, it marked the fastest month-on-month growth among Singapore’s top five source countries, said Cushman & Wakefield head of research Wong Xian Yang.