Tourism | Visitor arrivals up in May

Visitors arrivals totaled 2,477,591 in May, up slightly by 0.3 percent month-to-month and yet down by 2.8 percent year-on-year, according to new information released by the Statistics and Census Service. Same-day visitors dropped by 8.3 percent year-on-year to 1,272,242, while overnight visitors rose by 3.8 percent to 1,205,349. Visitors from mainland China decreased by 3.5 percent year-on-year to 1,631,164 in May, led by those coming from Guangdong Province (727,443), Hunan Province (70,514) and Fujian Province (64,950). Visitors from South Korea (48,109) and Hong Kong (500,973) decreased by 8 percent and 4.1 percent respectively year-on-year, while those from Taiwan (81,404) increased by 6.5 percent. In the first five months of 2016, visitor arrivals totaled 12,405,950, down marginally by 0.8 percent compared with the same period in the previous year. Visitors from mainland China (8,224,795) and Hong Kong (2,546,624) decreased by 1.5 percent and 3.2 percent. Meanwhile those from South Korea (265,691) and Taiwan (424,419) increased by 1.3 percent and 10.2 percent respectively.