“We’re in a very good place to continue to have Chinese arrivals come back strongly,” STB Assistant Chief Executive Juliana Kua said at a briefing.
Singapore expects tourist numbers to double from last year to reach 12-14 million visitors in 2023, helped by China’s decision to drop Covid travel restrictions, along with an increase in flight connectivity and capacity.
Those tourists could bring in as much as $21 billion, compared with about $14 billion last year, when 6.3 million people visited, Singapore Tourism Board said Tuesday. The city-state received only 330,000 international visitors in 2021, when curbs on global travel were most intense.
