Singaporeans avoid the United States more than other Asian travelers

Southeast Asia exceeds flights to the United States this year – For a variety of reasons.

However, Singaporean rejects this at greater levels than others, and a survey of 6000 regional passengers has shown.

The survey is commissioned before Travel CNBC 7 % of Singaporean showed that their interest in visiting the United States increased this year, while more than half (55 %) said that their interest had decreased.

Both numbers are sharply deviated from 44 % of the respondents in Southeast Asia who said their interest in the United States increased this year, and 18 % who said it decreased, according to the survey conducted by the market research company in the market.

Over and over, the poll showed that the opinions of Singaporeans around the United States are different from the programs of Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippine and Malaysia – often with a wide margin.

Singaporean was the only respondents in the poll who say they are still getting most of their information from local and international news. The respondents from the other five countries, including 80 % of those from Thailand, said social media is the main source of news.

The country often occupies the rank One of the safest countries in the world.

She said that Singaporean Kimberly Cocock said she was moving away from the United States this year.

“I was not particularly interested in going to the United States, most of them because of my safety,” she said. “You see many articles about news about hate crimes against Asians – as well as firearms.”

A student of the University of Singaporean Kayla Tham also said that weapons, which are not common in Southeast Asian societies, have formulated their interest in visiting the United States.

She said that politics and definitions are not its main concerns. Instead, “it comes to further allowing firearms. I feel (the regulations) are not really useful.”

In early 2025, Henley Passport showed this Singapore It was the most powerful passport in the world.

However, the Singaporeon was the least confident in traffic through the controls of American immigration, as the poll showed. About 60 % said they felt that the process would be smooth, compared to 78 % of other parts of Southeast Asia.

“When I go to immigration, I will be worried if I am arrested just because I am Chinese (ethnic),” Tiffany Nug told CNBC.

Nangram said that her conception of the United States has changed specifically during the past six months.

“I feel that it has become a more secure place,” she said. “It looks very unstable.”

Singaporean citizen Rahul Jain said that the United States is not on his travel list this year. The experience of “a lot of scrutiny, and many checks” from the American immigration authorities in the past.

But for him, the issues are deeper.

“Violence there, crime there, poverty,” he said. “I am sure that the situation is not like the media that makes it, but … why do you take the opportunity?”