Hong Kong welcomed 2,120,835 visitor arrivals in September 2007, an increase of 15.9% over the same month in 2006, the Hong Kong Tourism Board announced.<\/p>\n
The average occupancy across all categories of hotels for January-September 2007 was 85%, one percentage point lower than in the same period in 2006. The average achieved room rate across all hotel categories was HK$1,157, 12.6% higher than in the first nine months of 2006.<\/p>\n
As for the individual source markets, the growth trend of several long-haul markets remained strong. These included Canada (+26.2%), the UK (+16.3%), France (+12.4%), Australia (+16.5%) and New Zealand (+32.3%), which consistently registered double-digit increases in the past few months. Meanwhile, South Korea (+28.4%) and the Philippines (+23.4%) remained the star performers among the short-haul markets.<\/p>\n
In September, there were more than 1.23 million overnight visitor arrivals (58.3% of the total), with the remainder of almost 885,000 (41.7%) classified as same-day in-town visitors. Out of the total arrivals for January-September 2007, more than 12.45 million or 61.2% stayed in the city for at least one night, while those who left on the same day of arrival exceeded 7.9 million (38.8%).<\/p>\n
Arrivals from Mainland China grew by 22.1% to 1,136,325 in September, bringing the cumulative January-September arrivals to 11,312,149, 10.9% ahead of the same period last year. Of the Mainland arrivals in September, 579,826 or 51.0% travelled under the Individual Visit Scheme, a year-on-year increase of 35.8%. This took the cumulative IVS arrivals in January-September 2007 to more than 6.28 million, which represents 55.6% of visitors from the Mainland and growth of 26.1%. Arrivals from Taiwan reached 180,339 in September, an increase of 8.5%. This brought the January-September cumulative total from the island to 1,674,265, a rise of 2.2%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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