HONG KONG, December 27 -- November tourist arrivals in Hong Kong exceeded
2.08 million, up one percent compare with the same month of last year, the
Tourism Board said Wednesday.
The total number of arrivals from January
to November rose 8 percent to more than 22.84 million, the board said.
More than 1.29 million arrivals (62.4 percent) stayed in the city for at
least one night in November, with the remainder, 783, 000 or 37.6 percent,
classified as same-day in-town visitors.
Arrivals from key regional
source markets all registered increases, except the Chinese mainland which fell
2.5 percent to 1, 043,726 and South and Southeast Asia which dropped 3.5 percent
to 240,236.
Visitors from China's Taiwan rose 0.4 percent to 167,346;
North Asia (188,920, up 12.3 percent); Europe, Africa and the Middle East
(188,630, up 15.4 percent); the Americas (155,463, up 2.5 percent); and
Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific (54,632, up 7.7 percent).
The Chinese Mainland visitors represented 50.1 percent of the arrivals.
Of these, 483,082 traveled under the Individual Visit Scheme, 46.5 percent of
the mainland total and 8.7 percent more than the same month last year.
Hotel occupancy was 90 percent, five percentage points lower than the
same month last year. This can be partly explained by the 3.5 percent rise in
Hong Kong's hotel-room supply in the intervening 12
months.