In view of providing detailed information on visitor arrivals, the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) releases statistics on the length of stay of visitors starting from January 2012 and the corresponding data for 2011 to facilitate comparison. In January 2012, total visitor arrivals surged by 18.6% year-on-year to 2,461,640 attributable to the Lunar New Year holidays. Same-day visitors (1,371,090) accounted for 55.7% of the total. The average length of stay of visitors decreased by 0.2 day year-on-year to 0.9 day, and that of overnight visitors and same-day visitors stood at 1.8 days and 0.2 day respectively. Analyzed by place of residence, in January 2012, visitors from Mainland China increased by 22.5% year-on-year to 1,494,877 (60.7% of total), mostly from Guangdong Province (777,564), Fujian Province (65,966) and Zhejiang Province (51,549), with same-day visitors (847,993) surging by 27.5%. Mainland visitors travelling to Macao under the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) totalled 711,475, up substantially by 32.2% year-on-year. The average length of stay of Mainland visitors was 0.9 day, with that of same-day visitors at 0.2 day. Visitors from Hong Kong (638,032) and the Republic of Korea (46,176) went up by 20.5% and 9.6% respectively year-on-year; the average length of stay of Hong Kong visitors stood at 0.7 day. However, those from Taiwan, China (85,546) and Japan (31,669) decreased by 7.1% and 12.4% respectively. Meanwhile, visitors from Americas (25,047), Europe (21,575) and Oceania (15,185) rose by 5.8%, 14.5% and 11.2% respectively year-on-year. Analyzed by mode of transport, the majority of visitors arrived by land, an increase of 14.7% year-on-year to 1,360,648, which was followed by visitor arrivals by sea (960,822) and by air (140,170), up by 25.0% and 15.6% respectively.
