Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals totalled 3,432,187 in April 2019, up by 15.9% year-on-year. Overnight visitors (1,624,285) grew by 5.4% whereas same-day visitors (1,807,902) surged by 27.4%. The average length of stay of visitors dropped by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.1 days as the proportion of same-day visitors (52.7%) rose by 4.7 percentage points. Overnight visitors stayed an average of 2.2 days, an increase of 0.1 day; meanwhile, the average length of stay of same-day visitors held stable at 0.2 day.
Visitors from Mainland China increased by 13.5% year-on-year to 2,339,868, with those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (975,951) rising by 1.4%. Mainland visitors came primarily from Guangdong Province (868,313), Hunan Province (119,264) and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (103,502). Visitors from the Republic of Korea (61,573) and Hong Kong (696,902) increased by 0.8% and 30.0% respectively year-on-year, whereas those from Taiwan (91,829) dropped by 2.9%. Meanwhile, visitors from the cities in the Greater Bay Area grew by 17.6% year-on-year to 1,449,185, and 48.1% of them were from Hong Kong; those coming from Zhuhai surged by 40.6% to 227,651 (15.7% of the total) whereas those from Guangzhou decreased by 6.0% to 140,945 (9.7%).
Analysed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by land leapt by 45.4% year-on-year to 2,530,886 in April, with 1,759,111 (+17.2%) arriving through the Border Gate and 558,637 via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. Visitor arrivals by air increased by 18.4% year-on-year to 314,870, whereas those by sea declined by 38.6% to 586,431.
In the first four months of 2019, visitor arrivals reached 13,791,945, up by 19.9% year-on-year. Overnight visitors (6,359,311) and same-day visitors (7,432,634) rose by 8.3% and 31.9% respectively. The average length of stay of visitors shortened by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.1 days, with that of overnight visitors (2.2 days) and same-day visitors (0.2 day) remaining unchanged. Analysed by country/place, visitors from Mainland China (9,788,159), the Republic of Korea (323,624), Hong Kong (2,490,016) and Taiwan (353,682) grew by 21.0%, 7.5%, 23.6% and 1.7% respectively. Visitors from the United States (72,210), Australia (34,956), Canada (28,498) and the United Kingdom (21,328) showed year-on-year increases.