Visitor arrivals soared 104.7% year-on-year to 2.86 million in January 2024, recovering to 83.5% of the level in the same month of 2019, according to the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
However, the figure represented a drop of 2.8% month-on-month.
As regards the source of visitors, those from mainland China jumped 107.3% year-on-year to 2.1 million in January, with those traveling under the Individual Visit Scheme (1.12 million) rising by 57.8%.
Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area hiked by 68.6% year-on-year to 1,025,451.
Visitors from Hong Kong (546,277) and Taiwan (59,921) grew 53% and 217.6% year-on-year, respectively. Visitor numbers from the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan in January 2024 rebounded to 82.1%, 102.3% and 69% of the corresponding levels in the same month of 2019.
International visitors totaled 199,278 in January 2024, back to 66.4% of the figure in the same month of 2019.
Regarding the Southeast Asian markets, visitors from the Philippines (34,102) exceeded the level in January 2019, rising 24.3%. Visitors from Indonesia (13,961), Thailand (13,608) and Malaysia (10,997) returned to 86.9%, 93.1% and 66.2% of the corresponding levels in January 2019.
With respect to the Northeast Asian markets, visitors from the Republic of Korea (50,552) and Japan (10,646) recovered to 50.8% and 34.8% of the respective levels in the same month of 2019.
As regards long-haul markets, USA visitors (10,922) rebounded to 66.2% of the level in January 2019.
Staff Reporter
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