Visitor arrivals for October 2015

Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals totalled 2,637,106 in October 2015, down marginally by 0.6% year-on-year and yet up by 9.2% month-to-month. Same-day visitors totalled 1,414,348 (53.6% of total), down by 3.8% year-on-year; overnight visitors rose by 3.3% to 1,222,758. The average length of stay of visitors increased by 0.1 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 (2.2 days) rose by 0.2 day. Visitors from Mainland China edged down by 0.4% year-on-year to 1,817,212, with those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme dropping slightly by 0.8% to 791,784. Visitors from Mainland China came primarily from Guangdong Province (780,334), Fujian Province (83,083) and Hunan Province (71,581). Visitors from Japan (22,188), the Philippines (22,037) and Taiwan (83,462) increased by 1.4%, 4.2% and 5.6% respectively year-on-year, while those from Hong Kong (504,981) and the Republic of Korea (42,680) declined by 0.7% and 5.4%. Long-haul visitors from the United States (16,404) registered year-on-year increase, while visitors from Australia (8,164), Canada (6,596) and the United Kingdom (5,606) marked decrease. Analyzed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by land dropped marginally by 0.6% year-on-year to 1,506,687; visitors arriving via the Border Gate (1,341,831) decreased by 1.9%, while those via the Checkpoint of Cotai (162,660) rose by 12.0%. Visitor arrivals by sea edged down by 0.4% year-on-year to 952,526, with those arriving via the Outer Habour (563,433) dropping by 2.2%, but those via the Provisional Ferry Terminal in Taipa (364,036) rising by 5.7%. Moreover, visitor arrivals by air declined by 2.1% year-on-year to 177,893; those entering via the airport decreased by 1.6% to 176,937, accounting for 99.5% of the total. In the first ten months of 2015, visitor arrivals totalled 25,491,079, down by 2.6% year-on-year; same-day visitors (13,758,665) and overnight visitors (11,732,414) decreased by 1.9% and 3.5% respectively. Visitors from Mainland China (17,027,052) and the Republic of Korea (453,226) decreased by 3.5% and 2.7% respectively, while those from Hong Kong (5,430,687) and Taiwan (818,233) rose by 1.1% and 1.5%. Moreover, long-haul visitors from the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom recorded year-on-year decrease.