SINGAPORE — Visitor arrivals to Singapore plummeted to 2.7 million last year, the lowest in about four decades, following unprecedented global travel restrictions and border closures amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Last year’s arrivals nearly all took place during the first two months of the year, and the total number is a drop of 85.7 percent from arrivals in the whole of 2019, said the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) on Monday (Feb 1).
Tourism receipts also tumbled 78.4 percent to $4.4 billion in the first three quarters of last year, from the same period in 2019.
This was largely due to the unprecedented global travel restrictions and border closures, the STB said.
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