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Package tours and hotel occupancy rate for February 2019


Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitors on package tours totalled 706,000 in February 2019, up by 15.3% year-on-year. Package tour visitors from Mainland China (529,000) and Taiwan (61,000) grew by 14.0% and 14.9% respectively; in addition, those from the Republic of Korea (64,000) and Hong Kong (17,000) surged by 32.8% and 27.7%. In the first two months of 2019, there were 1,475,000 package tour visitors, an increase of 4.3% year-on-year.

Attributable to the long holiday of the Lunar New Year, outbound residents using services of travel agencies rose by 15.5% year-on-year to 154,000 in February. Among them, residents travelling under own arrangements increased by 21.4% to 99,000, with those going to Mainland China (47,000), Hong Kong (15,000) and Taiwan (17,000) together accounting for 79.5% of the total. Meanwhile, residents travelling on package tours grew by 6.3% to 56,000, and most of them went to Mainland China (47,000), comprising 84.2% of the total. In the first two months of 2019, outbound residents using services of travel agencies totalled 286,000, up by 12.6% year-on-year.

There were 117 hotels & guesthouses operating at the end of February 2019, an increase of 2 year-on-year. Number of available guest rooms grew by 1.0% year-on-year to 39,000, with 5-star hotel rooms rising by 3.0% to 24,000 (63.0% of total).

A total of 1,088,000 guests checked into hotels & guesthouses in February 2019, a growth of 5.0% year-on-year. Guests coming from Mainland China (767,000), the Republic of Korea (47,000) and Hong Kong (111,000) increased by 4.6%, 23.4% and 1.1% respectively, whereas those from Taiwan (32,000) dropped by 10.6%. The average occupancy rate of hotels & guesthouses went up by 2.3 percentage points year-on-year to 91.9%, with the rates of 5-star hotels (94.0%) and 3-star hotels (93.2%) rising by 1.2 percentage points and 7.5 percentage points respectively. The average length of stay of guests held steady year-on-year at 1.5 nights.

In the first two months of 2019, guests of hotels & guesthouses totalled 2,333,000, up by 5.3% year-on-year. The average occupancy rate of hotels & guesthouses rose by 1.8 percentage points to 92.4%. The average length of stay of guests held stable at 1.5 nights. Visitor-guests constituted 70.7% of the total overnight visitors, down by 1.9 percentage points year-on-year.



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