Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals totalled 3,209,751 in October 2019, up by 1.8% year-on-year. Same-day visitors (1,734,832) increased by 8.1% year-on-year whereas overnight visitors (1,474,919) dropped by 4.8%. The average length of stay of visitors held steady year-on-year at 1.2 days; overnight visitors extended their stay by 0.1 day to 2.4 days, while the duration for same-day visitors stayed unchanged at 0.2 day.
Visitors from mainland China went up by 1.5% year-on-year to 2,342,373 (52.9% of them came from Guangdong Province); mainland visitors travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme decreased by 1.9% to 1,084,626, with those arriving by sea (57,715) declining by 59.7%. Visitors from Hong Kong (567,777) and Taiwan (84,797) increased by 11.5% and 3.6% respectively, whereas those from the Republic of Korea (43,322) fell by 28.1%. Meanwhile, visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area surged by 28.6% year-on-year to 1,121,186; those coming from Zhuhai (314,708) and Guangzhou (229,479) soared by 40.2% and 23.6% respectively.
Analysed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by land increased by 21.6% year-on-year to 2,451,233 in October; among them, 1,833,489 (+8.8%) arrived through the Border Gate and 347,959 via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. Visitor arrivals by air rose by 11.3% year-on-year to 318,451, while those by sea declined by 48.4% to 440,067.
In the first ten months of 2019, visitor arrivals reached 33,412,657, a growth of 15.3% year-on-year. Same-day visitors (17,664,007) and overnight visitors (15,748,650) increased by 28.0% and 3.9% respectively. The average length of stay of visitors shortened by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.2 days, with that of overnight visitors (2.2 days) and same-day visitors (0.2 day) remaining stable. Analysed by country/place, visitors from mainland China (23,797,667), Hong Kong (6,127,894) and Taiwan (900,635) went up by 15.9%, 21.2% and 1.7% respectively, while those from the Republic of Korea (653,155) dropped by 2.2%. Visitors from the United States (167,017), Canada (61,421) and the United Kingdom (49,861) recorded year-on-year growth, whereas those from Australia (70,709) saw a decrease.