Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that attributable to the Lunar New Year holidays and the impact of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, visitor arrivals in February 2019 increased by 15.5% year-on-year to 3,545,701, and grew by 3.5% month-to-month. Overnight visitors (1,510,178) and same-day visitors (2,035,523) rose by 8.2% and 21.5% respectively year-on-year. As the proportion of same-day visitors continued to expand to 57.4%, the average length of stay of visitors shortened by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.0 day, with that of overnight visitors (2.1 days) and same-day visitors (0.2 day) both decreasing by 0.1 day.
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