STATS | Tourist arrivals up for Sept

Tourist arrivals increased by 3 pct year-on-year to 2,405,497 in September. Same-day visitors accounted for 52% of the total, according to information released by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
Analyzed by place of residence, visitors from mainland China increased by 6 pct year-on-year to 1,595,485, coming primarily from Guangdong Province (641,481) and Fujian Province (75,084).
Mainland visitors travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme rose by 11 pct, to 653,800. Visitors from the Republic of Korea (46,812) and Japan (27,331) increased by 24 pct and 7 pct respectively year-on-year, while those from Hong Kong (509,181) and Taiwan (79,968) decreasing by 3 pct and 13 pct. Long-haul visitors from the United States (13,787) registered a year-on-year increase of 7 pct, while those from Australia (8,840), Canada (5,031) and the United Kingdom (4,291) saw decreases.
The average length of stay of visitors remained unchanged from a year earlier.
In the first three quarters of 2014, visitor arrivals reached 23,529,009, up by 7 pct year-on-year, with same-day visitors sharing 53% of the total.