Singapore Visitor Arrivals in January 2010

Visitor arrivals to Singapore registered 17.6% growth to reach 908,000 in January 2010. Impressively, this is the highest recorded visitor arrivals for the vibrant city-state in the month of January. Visitor days were estimated at 3.6 million days, a year-on-year growth of 8.7%, as compared to January 2009.

Indonesia (173,000), China (99,000), Australia (90,000), Malaysia (68,000), and India (57,000) were Singapore’s top five visitor-generating markets in January 2010. These markets accounted for 54% of total visitor arrivals for the month. In January 2010, South Korea (+54.5%), Malaysia (+53.4%) and Indonesia (+46.7%) registered their highest growth out of the top 15 markets.

Average Occupancy Rate posted a 13.9 percentage point increase over January 2009 to reach 80.4% in January 2010.

 The Average Room Rate declined 9.5% over January 2009 to reach an estimate of Sin $187 in January 2010.

RevPAR increased by 9.4% to reach Sin$150 in January 2010, the first year-on-year growth in 16 months.

Hotel room revenue grew 8.5% against January 2009 to reach an estimated Sin$137 million in January 2010.

In January 2010, the AOR of mid-tier hotels recorded the largest growth (+16.8 percentage points) against January 2009 to reach 86%.

The ARR of upscale hotel recorded the smallest decline of 4.8% against January 2009 to reach $212 in January 2010.

Hotels in the upscale tier reported the largest growth (+12.6%) in RevPAR in January 2010 to reach $172.

See also: Singapore Visitor Arrivals for December and Year 2009 and January 2009

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