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Preliminary figures from PATA show that the
numbers of international visitors to the Asia Pacific region grew
by 3% year-on-year in November 2009. All the sub-regions, with the
exception of the Americas, recorded growth in arrivals for the
month. Southeast Asia led the Asia Pacific region’s recovery with
a 15% increase in arrivals, boosted by 11% growth to Malaysia and
strong rebounds in Singapore (+8%), Thailand (+26%) and Vietnam
(+37%).
In northeast Asia, arrivals to China (PRC) fell by
two% but Chinese Taipei (+25%), Korea (ROK) (+11%), Hong Kong SAR (+8%), Macau SAR (+3%) and
Japan (+2%) all reported growth. Significantly, the 2% growth
registered by Japan was the first since July 2008. Overall, growth
in international arrivals to northeast Asia averaged 2% for the month.
In south Asia, the
Maldives (+7%), Nepal (+8%) and Sri Lanka (+20%) all reported
strong growth. But arrivals to India fell by 1%, limiting the
sub-region’s overall arrivals growth to just 2% in November.
The Pacific recorded a modest 1% growth for the month on sluggish (but positive)
growth in arrivals to Australia (+3%), New Zealand (+0.3%) and Guam (+2%);
the US state of Hawaii however, recorded a decline of 1% over the same period.
The Americas also saw an aggregate decline for
the month with a 3% drop in arrivals driven in part by an 11% drop
in inbound numbers to Canada.
Kris Lim, Director of PATA’s
Strategic Intelligence Centre (SIC), said, “We are regaining some
of the lost ground as travel demand continues to pick up in the
last few months of 2009. The year-to-date rate of decline in
international visitor arrivals to the region has now eased to a
loss of just three% over the January-to-November period.
Based on the latest available results for December 2009 the
recovery momentum in arrivals remains strong for many destinations
in the region. This is very encouraging and we may look with
greater confidence to the year ahead.”
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