Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitors on package tours increased by 8.2% month-to-month to 728,000 in August 2016, with the year-on-year decline slowing to 20.6%. Package tour visitors from Mainland China (593,000) and Taiwan (42,000) decreased by 24.9% and 11.1% respectively year-on-year, while those from the Republic of Korea (32,000) surged by 146.3%. In the first eight months of 2016, visitors on package tours totalled 4,831,000, down by 28.5% year-on-year. Outbound residents using services of travel agencies totalled 109,000 in August 2016, up by 1.5% month-to-month and down by 17.3% year-on-year. Residents travelling on package tours decreased by 27.7% year-on-year to 41,000, owing to a 37.0% decrease in residents travelling to Mainland China (28,000); those travelling to Taiwan (2,700) also dropped by 14.0%. On the other hand, residents travelling to the Republic of Korea on package tours (3,900) soared by 580.4% year-on-year. In the first eight months of 2016, outbound residents using services of travel agencies totalled 816,000, down by 17.4% year-on-year. There were 105 hotels & guesthouses operating at the end of August 2016, up by 3 year-on-year and 1 month-to-month. Number of guest rooms totalled 33,000, up by 3,400 (+11.5%) year-on-year; 5-star (22,000) and 4-star hotel rooms (7,700) increased by 9.5% and 28.4% respectively. A total of 1,076,000 guests checked into hotels & guesthouses in August 2016, up by 3.3% month-to-month and 7.7% year-on-year. Guests from Mainland China (688,000), Hong Kong (178,000) and Taiwan (40,000) increased by 5.5%, 14.3% and 11.8% respectively year-on-year; concurrently, those from the Republic of Korea (28,000) surged by 40.3%. The average length of stay of guests held stable as in August 2015, at 1.4 nights. The average occupancy rate of hotels & guesthouses reached 90.3% in August 2016, the highest record since February 2014, up by 4.1 percentage points year-on-year and 3.5 percentage points month-to-month. The rate of 4-star hotels took the lead at 92.3%, up notably by 7.3 percentage points year-on-year, and that of 5-star hotels stood at 91.1%. In the first eight months of 2016, guests of hotels & guesthouses totalled 7,560,000, up by 12.0% year-on-year. The average occupancy rate of hotels & guesthouses stood at 81.1%, up slightly by 0.9 percentage points; the average length of stay of guests was 1.4 nights, down by 0.1 night year-on-year. Visitor-guests accounted for 70.6% of the total overnight visitors, up by 2.6 percentage points year-on-year.
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