Visitor arrivals for June 2016

Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals totalled 2,358,346 in June 2016, up by 4.9% year-on-year and yet down by 4.8% month-to-month. Overnight visitors rose by 13.9% year-on-year to 1,225,176, accounting for 52.0% of the total; same-day visitors dropped by 3.3% to 1,133,170. The average length of stay of visitors remained stable as in June 2015, at 1.2 days; the average stay of overnight visitors and same-day visitors was 2.2 days and 0.2 day respectively. Visitors from Mainland China increased by 5.7% year-on-year to 1,516,599 in June 2016, of which those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme rose by 3.4% to 665,919. Overnight Mainland visitors (776,482) registered double-digit growth, at 17.2%. Mainland visitors came mainly from Guangdong Province (657,858), Hunan Province (67,254) and Fujian Province (59,164). Visitors from the Republic of Korea (46,957) and Taiwan (95,615) increased by 49.5% and 19.1% respectively year-on-year, while those from Hong Kong (511,692) decreased by 2.3%. Long-haul visitors from the United States (16,012), Australia (6,921), Canada (4,859) and the United Kingdom (4,348) increased year-on-year. Analyzed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by land increased by 6.9% year-on-year to 1,319,701; those arriving through the Border Gate (1,157,876) and the Checkpoint of Cotai (160,251) rose by 5.8% and 16.6% respectively. Visitor arrivals by sea decreased by 1.1% year-on-year to 841,580; those disembarking at the Outer Harbour (502,841) fell by 7.7% while those arriving at the Provisional Ferry Terminal in Taipa (338,739) rose by 18.5%. Visitor arrivals by air increased by 21.0% year-on-year to 197,065, with 196,373 arriving at the airport. In the first half year of 2016, visitor arrivals totalled 14,764,296, up marginally by 0.1% year-on-year; overnight visitors rose by 8.3% to 7,163,259 while same-day visitors dropped by 6.6% to 7,601,037. The average length of stay of visitors increased by 0.2 day year-on-year to 1.2 days; the average stay of overnight visitors rose by 0.2 day to 2.2 days while that of same-day visitors held stable at 0.2 day. Visitors from Mainland China (9,741,394) and Hong Kong (3,058,316) decreased by 0.4% and 3.1% year-on-year, whereas those from the Republic of Korea (312,648) and Taiwan (520,034) increased by 6.5% and 11.7% respectively. Moreover, long-haul visitors from the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom registered year-on-year increase.