SINGAPORE’S international visitor arrivals climbed to 1.42 million in July, driven by a stronger return of Chinese travellers, which more than doubled from June.

July’s reading was up from the 1.13 million recorded in the previous month, according to the latest data from the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) on Wednesday (Aug 16). It is also slightly less than double the 726,739 visitors recorded in the corresponding month in 2022.

Overall visitor arrivals reached 7.7 million year to date, noted Wong Xian Yang, head of research for Singapore and South-east Asia at Cushman & Wakefield, in a sign that Singapore is on track to exceed 13 million visitors in 2023 – more than double the 6.3 million visitor count recorded last year, and within STB’s forecast range of 12 million to 14 million visitors.