{"id":30929,"date":"2010-08-25T05:30:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T21:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/en\/?p=17382"},"modified":"2010-08-25T05:30:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T21:30:18","slug":"hong-kong-sees-july-visitor-arrivals-up-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2010\/08\/25\/30929\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Sees July Visitor Arrivals Up 32%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong Tourism Board has announced that arrivals in Hong Kong for the month of July 2010 reached the highest ever single-month level, with with 3.13 million visitors: representing a robust increase of 31.9% year on year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>HKTB attributed the month's robust growth in tourist arrivals to the fact that summer is a popular travel season among mainland visitors. The city received more than two million mainland visitors in July: an increase of more than 40%.<\/p>\n<p>However, the the number of arrivals in the same month of last year was impacted by the H1NI influenza. As a result, the arrivals base for comparison is relatively low.<\/p>\n<p>Long-haul arrivals from markets in Europe and the USA rose by 10.6% while the short-haul market grew by 22.3%.<\/p>\n<p>South and Southeast Asia arrivals grew by 40%, while those from Taiwan climbed 10.4 %.<\/p>\n<p>As for emerging markets, arrivals from Russia, the Middle East and India rose by 86%, 47.5%, and 44.9% respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Figures released by HKTB also showed that the tourist arrivals rose 24.4% year on year to 19.99 million in the first seven months of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hong Kong Tourism Board has announced that arrivals in Hong Kong for the month of July 2010 reached the highest ever single-month level, with with 3.13 million visitors: representing a robust increase of 31.9% year on year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[13275,8401,12780,12762,12906,13573,12814,12782,12898],"class_list":["post-30929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-europe","tag-h1n1","tag-hktb","tag-hong-kong","tag-india","tag-russia","tag-statistics","tag-tourism","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}