Tourism Stats | Package tours drop in February

Visitors on package tours totaled 569,000 in February, down by 34.0% year-on-year and 0.2% month-to-month. Package tour visitors from mainland China (438,000) decreased by 36.7% year-on-year, and those from the Republic of Korea (34,000) and Taiwan (40,000) dropped by 18.8% and 24.2% respectively. In the first two months of 2016, visitors on package tours totaled 1,139,000, down by 33.2% year-on-­year,
There were 106 hotels/guesthouses operating at the end of February an increase of 8 year-on-­year. Number of guest rooms totaled 32,000, up by 4,000 (+13.9%) year-on-year, with rooms of 5-star hotels (20,000) and 4-star hotels (8,000) together accounting for 87.5% of the total.
A total of 872,000 guests checked into hotels/guesthouses in February, up by 15.9% year-on-­year.
Guests from the mainland increased by 9.1% to 562,000, while those from the Republic of Korea (23,000), Hong Kong (130,000) and Taiwan (36,000) recorded double-digit growth. The average length of stay of guests held stable at 1.4 nights as in February 2015. The average occupancy rate of hotels/guesthouses was 78.6%, down by 1.8 percentage points year-on-year; 5-star hotels had the highest occupancy rate at 80.5%, down by 3.2 percent.