Hong Kong Sees July Visitor Arrivals Up 32%
created: 2010-08-25
The Hong Kong Tourism Board has revealed that arrivals in Hong Kong in July 2010 reached the highest ever single-month level, with 3.13 million visitors: representing a robust increase of 31.9% year on year.
HKTB attributed the month's robust growth in tourist arrivals to the fact that summer is a popular travel season among mainland visitors. The city received more than two million mainland visitors in July: an increase of more than 40%.
However, the the number of arrivals in the same month of last year was impacted by the H1NI influenza. As a result, the arrivals base for comparison is relatively low.
Long-haul arrivals from markets in Europe and the USA rose by 10.6% while the short-haul market grew by 22.3%.
South and Southeast Asia arrivals grew by 40%, while those from Taiwan climbed 10.4 %.
As for emerging markets, arrivals from Russia, the Middle East and India rose by 86%, 47.5%, and 44.9% respectively.
Figures released by HKTB also showed that the tourist arrivals rose 24.4% year on year to 19.99 million in the first seven months of this year.
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