Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals decreased by 48.2% month-on-month to 409,207 in August 2021, on account of the temporarily tightened entry and exit requirements as local confirmed cases of novel coronavirus pneumonia were reported in early August; however, the figure represented an uplift of 80.2% year-on-year. Numbers of same-day visitors (257,966) and overnight visitors (151,241) surged by 64.9% and 114.1% year-on-year respectively. Meanwhile, the average length of stay of visitors went up by 0.7 day year-on-year to 1.6 days, with that of overnight visitors (3.9 days) extending by 0.6 day whereas that of same-day visitors (0.1 day) remaining unchanged.
In terms of source of visitors, number of Mainland visitors soared by 84.0% year-on-year to 369,467, with 74,049 of them travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme. Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area totalled 226,453, of whom 65.0% came from Zhuhai. Besides, there were 36,207 visitors from Hong Kong and 3,453 from Taiwan.
Analysed by checkpoint, number of visitor arrivals by land surged by 74.7% year-on-year to 393,056 in August, and 83.2% of them arrived through the Border Gate. Visitor arrivals by air and by sea totalled 13,622 and 2,529 respectively.
In the first eight months of 2021, number of visitor arrivals grew by 43.6% year-on-year to 5,126,443. Overnight visitors (2,622,633) and same-day visitors (2,503,810) increased by 59.9% and 29.7% year-on-year respectively. The average length of stay of visitors rose by 0.2 day year-on-year to 1.6 days; the duration for overnight visitors (3.1 days) lengthened by 0.3 day whereas that for same-day visitors (0.1 day) decreased by 0.1 day.