Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that attributable to the Lunar New Year holidays, visitors on package tours increased by 13.2% year-on-year to 983,000 in February 2015; visitors arriving on package tours (673,000) accounted for 68.5% of the total, while those joining local tours shared 31.5%. Package tour visitors from Mainland China increased by 21.5% year-on-year to 804,000, with 418,000 coming from Guangdong Province. Visitors from the Republic of Korea (41,000) and Hong Kong (39,000) increased by 7.7% and 8.1% respectively year-on-year, whereas those from Taiwan (53,000) decreased by 12.0%. In the first two months of 2015, visitors on package tours reached 1,940,000, up by 16.8% year-on-year. Outbound residents using services of travel agencies were 135,000 in February 2015, up by 10.2% year-on-year; those travelling on package tours surged by 29.1% to 56,000, and the main destinations were Mainland China (80.7% of total), the Republic of Korea (5.2%), Taiwan (3.9%) and Hong Kong (3.4%). In the first two months of 2015, outbound residents using services of travel agencies totalled 247,000, up by 3.6% year-on-year. There were 97 hotels and guesthouses operating at the end of February 2015, providing 28,000 guest rooms, up by 1.0% year-on-year; 5-star hotels accounted for 65.2% of the total supply, with 18,000 rooms. A total of 756,000 guests checked into hotels and guesthouses in February 2015, down by 9.9% year-on-year. Guests from Mainland China (512,000) and Hong Kong (87,000) decreased by 6.4% and 16.2%. The average length of stay of guests held stable as February 2014, at 1.4 nights. On account of an increase in guest rooms and a decrease in guests, the average occupancy rate of hotels and guesthouses tumbled by 11.3 percentage points year-on-year to 80.2%, with 5-star hotels leading at 83.3%. In the first two months of 2015, hotel guests totalled 1,559,000, down by 8.9% year-on-year; the average occupancy rate stood at 79.8%, a decrease of 6.1 percentage points. Visitor-guests accounted for 66.5% of the total overnight visitors, down by 1.9 percentage points year-on-year.