Before the pandemic, China was Singapore’s largest market in terms of visitor arrivals and tourism receipts with close to 3.6 million visitors generating $4.6 billion, Ow said. “There continues to be a very strong pick up in terms of demand, with robust forward bookings on travel outbound from China,” she said.
Singapore expects arrivals from China this year to reach 30% to 60% of pre-Covid levels as tourism recovery from the world’s largest outbound market picks up gradually.
The city-state welcomed about 870,000 Chinese visitors as of end-August, making up close to 30% of 2019 numbers, the Singapore Tourism Board’s Chief Executive Officer Melissa Ow told Bloomberg TV on the sidelines of the Milken Institute Asia Summit Friday.
