{"id":694739,"date":"2026-07-16T11:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694739\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:57:24","slug":"worlds-second-richest-nation-records-tourism-receipts-of-6-6m-in-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/694739\/","title":{"rendered":"World’s second-richest nation records tourism receipts of $6.6M in first quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Singapore, ranked the world’s second-richest country by GDP per capita in 2025, collected S$8.6 billion (US$6.6 million) in tourism receipts in the first quarter of 2026, up 5.8% year-on-year.\t<\/p>\n

“The increase in tourism receipts was driven by strong visitor spending, in line with Singapore’s strategy to promote high-quality tourism,” Singapore Tourism Board (STB) said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

International visitor arrivals increased 2.9% year-on-year to 4.4 million in the first quarter of 2026, up from 4.3 million during the same period last year.<\/p>\n

Mainland China remained Singapore’s largest source of tourism receipts, generating S$1.3 billion in visitor spending, up 3.4% from a year earlier, The Business Times reported.<\/p>\n

The city-state welcomed 913,407 visitors from mainland China during the quarter, a 9.9% increase compared with the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n

\"Tourists<\/p>\n

Tourists pose for photos at the Merlion Park in Singapore, Jan. 28, 2020. Photo by Reuters<\/p>\n

Indonesia ranked second, contributing S$719.7 million in tourism receipts despite a 0.5% year-on-year decline.<\/p>\n

Australia, the United States and India completed Singapore’s top five tourism spending markets.<\/p>\n

Singapore saw a record tourism receipts of S$32.8 billion last year, The Straits Times reported.<\/p>\n

STB said macroeconomic uncertainty and capacity constraints are expected to continue weighing on travel demand in the second half of the year.<\/p>\n

STB chief executive Melissa Ow said Singapore remains an attractive destination but acknowledged that the tourism sector faces headwinds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singapore, ranked the world’s second-richest country by GDP per capita in 2025, collected S$8.6 billion (US$6.6 million) in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55,71],"class_list":["post-694739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}