Hong Kong saw an 11.2% year-on-year rise in visitors in April, to 2.42 million, bringing the cumulative arrivals for this year's first four months to 9.69 million, a 10.3% rise over the same period last year, the Tourism Board says.

The Mainland was the best performing of all long- and short-haul market regions, with arrivals growing 19.8%, to more than 1.3 million. 

Arrivals from non-Mainland markets accounted for 46.1% of the total monthly arrivals. Growth was recorded in North Asia (up 7.3%), Australia, New Zealand & South Pacific (6.6%), South & Southeast Asia (4.2%), the Americas (2.6%), and Europe, Africa & the Middle East (1.6%).

Out of the total Mainland arrivals in April, 51.5% arrived under the Individual Visit Scheme, 26.6% more than in the same month last year.

About 56.4% of all visitors to Hong Kong stayed in the city for at least one night, 2.6 percentage points lower than for the same month last year. The remaining 43.6% same-day in-town visitors either returned home or left for another destination on the day they arrived.