Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitors on package tours totalled 575,000 in April 2016, down by 31.7% year-on-year but up by 2.2% month-to-month. Package tour visitors from Mainland China (451,000) decreased by 34.1% year-on-year, and those from the Republic of Korea (29,000) and Taiwan (29,000) dropped by 13.2% and 39.8% respectively; meanwhile, package tour visitors from Thailand (16,000) registered an increase of 34.3%. In the first four months of 2016, visitors on package tours totalled 2,275,000, down by 34.0% year-on-year. Outbound residents using services of travel agencies totalled 89,000 in April 2016, down by 21.6% year-on-year and 16.9% month-to-month as the Easter holidays fell in April 2015 and March 2016 respectively. Residents travelling on package tours decreased by 27.6% year-on-year to 34,000; those travelling to Mainland China and Taiwan dropped by 36.4% and 37.6% respectively, while those to the Republic of Korea soared by 138.8%. In the first four months of 2016, outbound residents using services of travel agencies totalled 402,000, down by 16.7% year-on-year. There were 106 hotels & guesthouses operating at the end of April 2016, an increase of 7 year-on-year. Number of guest rooms totalled 32,000, up by 3,800 (+13.6%) year-on-year; those of 5-star hotels (20,000) and 4-star hotels (7,700) accounted for 63.6% and 24.0% of the total respectively. A total of 917,000 guests checked into hotels & guesthouses in April 2016, up by 11.5% year-on-year. Guests from Mainland China (610,000) increased by 16.7%, while those from Hong Kong (115,000) decreased by 8.2% following the continuous year-on-year growth since April 2015. The average length of stay of guests decreased by 0.1 night year-on-year to 1.3 nights. The average occupancy rate of hotels & guesthouses was 79.0%, down by 0.7 percentage point year-on-year and yet up by 2.5 percentage points month-on-month; the occupancy rate of 3-star hotels (83.8%) and 4-star hotels (83.7%) was relatively high, up by 2.9 and 1.7 percentage points respectively. In the first four months of 2016, guests of hotels & guesthouses totalled 3,578,000, up by 12.9% year-on-year. The average occupancy rate of hotels & guesthouses stood at 77.6% and the average length of stay of guests was 1.4 nights, down by 1.7 percentage points and 0.1 night respectively. Visitor-guests accounted for 71.2% of the total overnight visitors, up notably by 3.5 percentage points year-on-year.
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