Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals totalled 3,095,853 in June 2019, up by 18.9% year-on-year. Same-day visitors (1,567,434) surged by 35.4% and overnight visitors (1,528,419) grew by 5.7%. As the proportion of same-day visitors (50.6%) expanded by 6.2 percentage points year-on-year, the average length of stay of visitors shortened by 0.1 day to 1.2 days, with that of overnight visitors and same-day visitors holding steady at 2.2 days and 0.2 day respectively.
Visitors from mainland China increased by 19.9% year-on-year to 2,100,557, with those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (931,260) rising by 14.9%. Mainland visitors came primarily from Guangdong Province (924,449) and Hunan Province (96,338). Visitors from the Republic of Korea (60,753), Hong Kong (623,114) and Taiwan (94,078) rose by 5.1%, 24.3% and 1.3% respectively year-on-year. Meanwhile, visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area surged by 36.3% year-on-year to 820,917; those coming from Zhuhai and Guangzhou soared by 60.6% and 21.5% respectively year-on-year to 248,615 and 161,652.
Analysed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by land soared by 51.5% year-on-year to 2,239,627 in June, with 1,550,024 (+21.7%) arriving through the Border Gate and 476,100 via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. Visitor arrivals by air grew by 15.2% year-on-year to 311,163, whereas those by sea declined by 36.2% to 545,063.
In the first half year of 2019, visitor arrivals reached 20,284,633, up by 20.6% year-on-year. Same-day visitors (10,798,806) and overnight visitors (9,485,827) rose by 34.2% and 8.2% 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 (14,314,457), the Republic of Korea (450,140), Hong Kong (3,694,910) and Taiwan (535,597) increased by 22.3%, 6.2%, 23.2% and 2.0% respectively. Visitors from the United States (106,790), Australia (48,447), Canada (39,723) and the United Kingdom (30,693) recorded year-on-year growth.