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Visitor arrivals for November 2018


In view of the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, visitor arrivals increased by 15.3% year-on-year to 3,266,283 in November 2018, and a month-to-month growth of 3.6%. Overnight visitors (1,589,246) and same-day visitors (1,677,037) rose by 5.1% and 26.9% respectively year-on-year. The average length of stay of visitors held steady year-on-year at 1.2 days, with that of overnight visitors rising by 0.1 day to 2.2 days and that of same-day visitors staying at 0.2 day.

Visitors from Mainland China grew by 15.3% year-on-year to 2,283,628 in November, and 1,055,567 of them travelled under the Individual Visit Scheme, up by 19.1%. Mainland visitors came primarily from Guangdong Province (925,414) and Hunan Province (115,763). Visitors from Hong Kong (591,077) surged by 25.6%, whereas those from the Republic of Korea (67,685) and Taiwan (82,099) dropped by 6.6% and 2.4% respectively. Meanwhile, visitors from the United States (22,538), Australia (8,435), Canada (8,261) and the United Kingdom (6,448) registered year-on-year increases.

Analysed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by land soared by 47.9% year-on-year to 2,314,952, with 436,660 travelling via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge; visitors arriving through the Border Gate (1,665,364) rose by 21.5%. Visitor arrivals by air increased by 11.3% year-on-year to 272,818. However, visitor arrivals by sea plunged by 33.7% to 678,513, with those disembarking at the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal (414,417) and the Taipa Ferry Terminal (264,096) declining by 31.9% and 36.3% respectively.

In the first eleven months of 2018, visitor arrivals totalled 32,233,838, up by 9.1% year-on-year; overnight visitors (16,751,684) and same-day visitors (15,482,154) grew by 7.2% and 11.1% respectively. The average length of stay of visitors stayed at 1.2 days, with that of overnight visitors (2.2 days) rising by 0.1 day and that of same-day visitors (0.2 day) remaining unchanged. Analysed by country/place, visitors from Mainland China (22,811,627) and Hong Kong (5,646,200) increased by 13.3% and 1.0% respectively, while those from the Republic of Korea (735,626) and Taiwan (967,932) dropped by 7.7% and 0.4% respectively. Visitors from the United States (182,199), Australia (80,263) and the United Kingdom (53,396) recorded year-on-year growth, whereas those from Canada (66,377) saw a decrease.



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