Visitor arrivals to Hong Kong in August 2012
rose 20.5% year-on-year to 4,898,843. [See:
Hong Kong Visitor Arrivals in August 2011]
In the first eight months of
the year, visitor arrivals rose to 31,591,383, 16.0% more than in
the corresponding period in last year.
In August 2012, Hong Kong
received about 2.48 million overnight arrivals, which represented
approximately 51% of all visitor arrivals to the city and more
than a 10% increase over the same month in 2011.
Same-day visitor
arrivals exceeded 2.42 million (49.4% of total arrivals), up 32.2%
compared with the previous August.
Cumulatively, overnight
arrivals and same-day arrivals between January and August stood
respectively at 15.68 million and 15.91 million, or 49.6% and
50.4% of overall arrivals.
The Hong Kong Tourism Board has also just
published the
“Total Tourism Expenditure Associated to Inbound Tourism” (TEAIT)
for the first half of 2012, which was HK$138.37 billion, a
year-on-year increase of 17.7%.
The per capita spending of
visitors also went up – with that of overnight visitors up 7.8% to
HK$7,736 and that of same-day visitors up 3.8% to HK$2,075.
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