Tourists and visitors pose for photos at a rooftop observatory in Singapore on July 26, 2022.SINGAPORE — Singapore's international arrivals beat forecasts in 2022, paving the way for its tourism sector to recover to pre-pandemic levels by 2024, its tourism authority said on Tuesday .
STB's Director of Communications Terence Voon said these numbers were achieved even though Singapore had quarantine measures in the first quarter of 2022, reflecting that there is "strong pent-up demand" to visit Singapore. Tourism contributes about four per cent to Singapore's annual gross domestic product, according to the STB. In 2019, the regional travel hub saw a record 19.1 million visitors and $27.7 billion in revenue.
There were 3.6 million visitors from China in 2019, making it the largest contributor to Singapore's tourism before the pandemic. But while it had strict travel restrictions in place, China was overtaken by Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Australia and the Philippines.
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