Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitors on package tours totalled 1,190,000 in December 2014, up significantly by 35.8% year-on-year. Package tour visitors from Mainland China surged by 51.5% year-on-year to 991,000, with 328,000 coming from Guangdong Province, up by 17.4%. Those from Taiwan (57,000), Hong Kong (34,000) and the Republic of Korea (33,000) decreased by 6.3%, 23.2% and 8.6% respectively. For the whole year of 2014, visitors on package tours reached 12,347,000, up by 26.3% year-on-year. Outbound residents using services of travel agencies were 138,000 in December 2014, up by 5.7% year-on-year; those travelling on package tours totalled 53,000 and the main destination was Mainland China (80.4% of total), followed by Taiwan (6.5%) and the Republic of Korea (5.0%). For the whole year of 2014, outbound residents using services of travel agencies totalled 1,537,000, up by 6.2% year-on-year. There were 98 hotels and guesthouses operating at the end of December 2014, providing 28,000 guest rooms, up by 0.5% year-on-year; 5-star hotels accounted for 65.9% of the total supply, with 18,000 rooms. A total of 885,000 guests checked into hotels and guesthouses in December 2014, down by 8.4% year-on-year. Guests from Mainland China (559,000) decreased by 3.2%, while those from Hong Kong (107,000) tumbled by 26.2%. The average length of stay of guests held stable as December 2013, at 1.4 nights. The average occupancy rate of hotels and guesthouses decreased by 4.7 percentage points year-on-year to 85.1%, with 5-star hotels leading at 86.1%, down by 4.2 percentage points; meanwhile, the rate of 4-star hotels dropped by 6.8 percentage points to 85.9%. For the whole year of 2014, hotel guests increased slightly by 0.4% year-on-year to 10,713,000; the average occupancy rate stood at 86.5%, up by 3.4 percentage points. For the whole year of 2014, visitor-guests accounted for 68.8% of the total overnight visitors, down by 1.4 percentage points year-on-year.
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