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#Hong kong tourism board statistics series
In the second half of the year, the HKTB will launch a series of market promotions to further attract overnight visitors and open up new visitor sources:
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Major overseas promotions in the second half of 2013 Overall, Hong Kong received a total of 25.36 million visitor arrivals in the first half of 2013, up 13.6% from the corresponding period in 2012. Also recording growth in overnight arrivals to Hong Kong were India, the Gulf Co-operation Council region and Vietnam. Russia saw particularly robust growth, with overnight arrivals up 24.6% and overall arrivals rising 26.3% to about 120,000, making Russia Hong Kong’s second biggest European market, just after the UK. The new markets achieved satisfactory results, with overnight arrivals up 7.2%, mainly because of increased flight capacity. In addition, overnight arrivals from Thailand rose 15.0%.Īs for long-haul markets, under the impact of volatile economic conditions, there was a 4.1% decrease in overnight long-haul arrivals to Hong Kong. Also, direct cross-strait flights diverted business travelers, leaving more available airline seats for vacation travelers from Taiwan. Taiwan, however, registered a 4.1% increase in overnight arrivals, which could be attributed to the free, online, pre-arrival, visa-registration service offered to Taiwan residents by the Hong Kong SAR Government. By market, overnight arrivals from Japan fell 29.1%. In the same period, short-haul arrivals to Hong Kong dropped 4.2% year-on-year, since Japan drew away many regional travelers with its weak YEN. In the first half of the year, overnight arrivals from Mainland China reached 7.84 million, 16.2% more than in the same period in 2012. **Including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates * Total figure includes arrivals from Macau SAR The table below shows the breakdown of overnight visitor arrivals from the various market regions in the first half of 2013: HONG KONG - The Hong Kong Tourism Board announced that about 12 million overnight visitor arrivals were recorded between January and June this year, representing an 8.7% year-on-year increase and 47.1% of all visitor arrivals during the period.