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Package tours and hotel occupancy rate for October 2016


Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitors on package tours totalled 677,000 in October 2016, down by 19.0% year-on-year and up by 11.8% month-to-month. Package tour visitors from Mainland China (542,000) and Taiwan (39,000) dropped by 22.7% and 2.0% respectively year-on-year, while those from the Republic of Korea (32,000) recorded an increase of 37.8%. In the first ten months of 2016, visitors on package tours totalled 6,093,000, down by 27.0% year-on-year. Outbound residents using services of travel agencies totalled 106,000 in October 2016, down by 12.4% year-on-year and up by 7.1% month-to-month. Residents travelling on package tours decreased by 21.7% year-on-year to 40,000, of which residents travelling to Mainland China (29,000) and Taiwan (3,100) dropped by 24.2% and 3.4% respectively, while those travelling to the Republic of Korea (3,100) rose by 16.8%. In the first ten months of 2016, outbound residents using services of travel agencies totalled 1,023,000, down by 16.2% year-on-year. There were 107 hotels & guesthouses operating at the end of October 2016, up by 3 year-on-year. Number of guest rooms increased by 14.6% year-on-year to 36,000, with that of 3-star hotels (5,500) surging by 116.8%; guest rooms of 5-star (22,000) and 4-star hotels (7,700) accounted for 59.9% and 21.3% of the total respectively. Number of guests of hotels & guesthouses in October 2016 increased by 20.9% year-on-year to 1,084,000, of which guests from Mainland China (695,000) and Hong Kong (154,000) went up by 18.6% and 31.9% respectively. The average length of stay of guests went down by 0.1 night year-on-year to 1.4 nights. The average occupancy rate of hotels & guesthouses stood at 83.5% in October 2016, up by 2.5 percentage points year-on-year, with that of 4-star (87.9%) and 5-star hotels (83.9%) rising by 4.9 and 2.3 percentage points respectively. In the first ten months of 2016, guests of hotels & guesthouses totalled 9,652,000, up by 13.5% year-on-year. The average occupancy rate of hotels & guesthouses stood at 81.5%, up by 1.4 percentage points, while the average length of stay of guests was 1.4 nights, down by 0.1 night year-on-year. Visitor-guests accounted for 71.2% of the total overnight visitors, up by 3.2 percentage points year-on-year.



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