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Last Updated: 3 September, 2010
Singapore Witnesses Record Number of Travelers in January
January of 2010 managed to see the highest ever recorded number of travels to Singapore for the month.
Figures shared by the Singapore Tourism Board have revealed that as many as 908,000 travelers visited Singapore over the past month, which is a hike of nearly 17.5% compared to January of 2009.
The top 5 markets for the month which generated visitors for Singapore were Indonesia with 173,000 visitors, China with 99,000 travelers, Australia with 90,000 travelers, 68,000 came in from Malaysia and 57,000 travelers were from India.
As has been shared by the STB, there 5 markets made up for 54% of the total visitors over the month.
Visitor days were estimated at 3.6 million days, which is a rise of 8.7% on year-on-year basis.
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