Visitor arrivals for November 2015

Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals totalled 2,589,451 in November 2015, down by 7.6% year-on-year and 1.8% month-to-month. Same-day visitors totalled 1,344,381 (51.9% of total), down by 14.0% year-on-year; overnight visitors rose marginally by 0.4% to 1,245,070. The average length of stay of visitors increased by 0.2 day year-on-year to 1.1 days; the average stay of same-day visitors (0.2 day) remained unchanged while that of overnight visitors (2.1 days) rose by 0.2 day. Visitors from Mainland China totalled 1,726,859, down by 12.6% year-on-year; with those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme dropping by 17.6% to 774,661. Visitors from Mainland China came primarily from Guangdong Province (772,547), Hunan Province (70,797) and Fujian Province (67,911). Visitors from Hong Kong (512,537), the Republic of Korea (46,071), Japan (27,217) and Taiwan (84,697) increased by 0.9%, 10.8%, 8.8%and 21.6% respectively year-on-year. Long-haul visitors from the United States (18,619), Australia (8,519) and Canada (7,683) registered year-on-year increase, while visitors from the United Kingdom (6,210) marked decrease. Analyzed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by land decreased by 9.0% year-on-year to 1,473,291; visitors arriving via the Border Gate (1,308,785) dropped by 10.1%, while those via the Checkpoint of Cotai (162,420) rose marginally by 0.8%. Visitor arrivals by sea decreased by 6.7% year-on-year to 939,736, with those arriving via the Outer Habour (572,957) and the Provisional Ferry Terminal in Taipa (343,801) dropping by 4.5% and 5.6% respectively. Moreover, visitor arrivals by air increased slightly by 0.7% year-on-year to 176,424; those entering via the airport rose by 1.3% to 175,225, accounting for 99.3% of the total. In the first eleven months of 2015, visitor arrivals totalled 28,080,530, down by 3.1% year-on-year; same-day visitors (15,103,046) and overnight visitors (12,977,484) decreased by 3.1% and 3.2% respectively. Visitors from Mainland China (18,753,911), the Republic of Korea (499,297) and Japan (255,203) decreased by 4.4%, 1.6% and 7.2% respectively, while those from Hong Kong (5,943,224), the Philippines (246,534), and Taiwan (902,930) rose by 1.1%, 4.4% and 3.1%. Moreover, long-haul visitors from the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom recorded year-on-year decrease.