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Package tours and hotel occupancy rate for February 2018


Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitors on package tours totalled 597,000 in February 2018, up by 8.8% year-on-year and yet down by 25.6% month-to-month. Package tour visitors from Mainland China (450,000) and Taiwan (56,000) rose by 11.6% and 55.3% respectively year-on-year, while those from the Republic of Korea (46,000) dropped by 6.1%. In the first two months of 2018, visitors on package tours totalled 1,399,000, a surge of 29.3% year-on-year.

Attributable to the long Lunar New Year holidays, outbound residents using services of travel agencies increased by 15.9% year-on-year to 131,000. Among them, residents travelling on package tours grew by 12.4% to 53,000, with those going to Mainland China (37,000) rising by 10.5%. In the first two months of 2018, outbound residents using services of travel agencies totalled 249,000, up by 9.8% year-on-year.

There were 115 hotels & guesthouses operating at the end of February 2018, an increase of 7 year-on-year. Number of guest rooms rose by 6.4% year-on-year to 39,000, with 5-star hotel rooms rising by 8.5% to 24,000, accounting for 61.2% of the total.

Number of guests of hotels & guesthouses in February 2018 rose by 6.4% year-on-year to 1,034,000. Guests coming from Mainland China (732,000) and the Republic of Korea (38,000) increased by 15.0% and 5.6% respectively year-on-year; meanwhile, guests from Hong Kong (109,000) and Taiwan (36,000) dropped by 13.6% and 18.3% respectively. The average length of stay of guests went up by 0.1 night year-on-year to 1.5 nights. The average occupancy rate of hotels & guesthouses stood at 89.2%, up by 2.7 percentage points year-on-year, with that of 5-star hotels reaching 92.8%, representing an increase of 4.8 percentage points.

In the first two months of 2018, guests of hotels & guesthouses totalled 2,210,000, up by 9.8% year-on-year. The average occupancy rate of hotels & guesthouses rose by 5.9 percentage points to 89.8%. The average length of stay of guests went up by 0.1 night year-on-year to 1.5 nights. Visitor-guests accounted for 72.4% of the total overnight visitors, down slightly by 0.6 percentage points year-on-year.



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