Singapore

Skyscanner's Travel Trends 2027 report shows:

The Singapore Police Force warned that scammers have been sending WhatsApp and email phishing messages that impersonate hotels and hotel booking platforms and use genuine booking details such as travel dates and destinations. At least 148 cases have been reported since Jan 2026, with losses of at least $185,000 SGD. Victims were prompted to enter bank card details on phishing pages to verify bookings. Booking.com stated that it never asks customers for card details by text, WhatsApp, email or phone

Chan Brothers Travel launched Journey Within, a series of tours built on positive psychology practices, starting with Japan and Bhutan. The tours run with smaller groups, slower itineraries, a well-being assessment framework, and human tour leaders without AI-assisted tools, and are priced at a premium to its standard packages. Chan Brothers plans to expand the series selectively rather than quickly or widely, focusing on “landscape, heritage, and a certain quality of human pace”

Bookings from Singapore with Railbookers Group average 2.7 passengers against a regional average of 2.2, with travellers spending an average of 8.3 nights on a rail holiday and favouring itineraries through Switzerland, Italy and the Alps and the Berlin-Prague-Vienna-Budapest corridor. The group is building its Asian rail products, with new brochures covering Vietnam and Japan and further ones planned for Sri Lanka, China and South Korea. It plans to announce partnerships with river cruise companies in Asia to combine river and rail itineraries. A series of fam trips for trade partners and media will run in 2027

Data from Lightfoot Travel shows Singapore travellers are enquiring about destinations beyond established choices for 2027, with Antarctica and South Korea enquiries more than doubling against 2025, Norway up more than 70%, Mongolia up 75% and Bhutan up around 40%. South Africa and China were its 2 most-booked destinations among Singapore clients in 2026, followed by Japan, Peru and Vietnam, with Vietnam enquiries up 50% and Japan bookings up 80% YoY. The company also reported standalone interest in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan while overall Central Asia enquiry volumes stayed broadly stable. The company said family travel is still in demand, with recent trips covering Mongolia, Kenya, China, Egypt, Italy, Norway and Peru. Lightfoot also said that the client is approaching them after researching destinations and itineraries themselves using artificial intelligence tools, with travel specialists advising them on accommodation, guides, access and changes to travel plans later

Accommodation search interest in Indonesia rose 18% among travellers from Malaysia, placing Indonesia second among Malaysian outbound searches, followed by Singapore at third place with a 17% increase, according to Agoda

A YouGov survey commissioned by Royal Caribbean across Singapore, Malaysia, India, Indonesia and the Philippines found that 74% of respondents were attracted to exploring multiple European destinations in one trip. The survey ran from 28 May to 8 Jun 2026 among 6,223 respondents aged 18 and above. • Interest was highest in Indonesia at 82%, followed by the Philippines at 75%, Malaysia at 70%, India at 67% and Singapore at 66%, reaching 80% among those who had previously travelled within Europe and 81% among parents with children under 18 • Cruise ranked first among preferred modes of intra-European transport at 26%, ahead of trains at 24%, short-haul flights at 22%, private cars at 19% and buses or coaches at 9%, with the Philippines highest at 34% and Indonesia at 30% • Italy topped the destinations respondents wanted to visit at 47%, followed by the UK at 43%, France at 41% and Spain at 33%, with India strongest on Italy at 51% and the Philippines strongest on Spain at 43% • 87% identified at least one difficulty in travelling between European destinations, led by flight delays and cancellations at 51%, long layovers at 38%, managing luggage between countries at 37%, packing and unpacking at 34%, airport security screening at 32% and transfers between cities at 25% • The main perceived benefits of cruise were meals and entertainment included at 49%, seeing multiple destinations easily at 42%, avoiding airport processes at 38%, safety and comfort at 37%, and no packing and unpacking between destinations at 35%