Some 3.1 million Chinese tourists made up the city-state’s largest source market– the figure represents 85.5% of 2019 levels and marked a slight increase from 2024’s 85%. Tourists from Indonesia and Malaysia made up the rest of the podium with 2.4 and 1.3 million visitors, respectively.
Singapore saw some 16.9 million tourist arrivals in 2025, a slight miss of the Singapore Tourism Board’s (STB) forecast of 17 million to 18.5 million.
On a y-o-y basis, OCBC Group Research’s Ada Lim notes that this marked a 2.3% increase, which is a recovery to 88.5% of pre-Covid levels.
