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Tourist arrivals in October exceeded 2.19 million, up 2.3% on the same month last year, the Tourism Board says. The total number of arrivals from January to October rose 8.7% to more than 20.76 million.
In October, more than 1.35 million arrivals (62%) stayed in Hong Kong for at least one night, with the remainder, 834,000 or 38%, classified as same-day in-town visitors.
Arrivals from key regional source markets all registered increases, except the Mainland which fell 2.8% to 1,083,361 and Taiwan which dropped 5% to 184,003. Visitors from South and Southeast Asia grew 18.4% to 259,416; North Asia (161,565, up 6.7%); Europe, Africa and the Middle East (224,216, up 9.3%); the Americas (169,692, up 5.4%); and Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific (65,041, up11.5%).
Mainland visitors represented 49.4% of October's arrivals. Of these, 539,808 travelled under the Individual Visit Scheme, 49.8% of the Mainland total and 6% more than the same month last year.
Hotel occupancy across all categories of hotels and tourist guesthouses in October was 85%. This is three percentage points lower than the same month last year, which can be partly explained by the 4% increase in hotel-room supply in the intervening 12 months.
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