Hong Kong Visitor Arrivals in August 2012

Visitor arrivals to Hong Kong in August 2012 rose 20.5% year-on-year to 4,898,843. [See: Hong Kong Visitor Arrivals in August 2011]

In the first eight months of the year, visitor arrivals rose to 31,591,383, 16.0% more than in the corresponding period in last year.

In August 2012, Hong Kong received about 2.48 million overnight arrivals, which represented approximately 51% of all visitor arrivals to the city and more than a 10% increase over the same month in 2011.

Same-day visitor arrivals exceeded 2.42 million (49.4% of total arrivals), up 32.2% compared with the previous August.

Cumulatively, overnight arrivals and same-day arrivals between January and August stood respectively at 15.68 million and 15.91 million, or 49.6% and 50.4% of overall arrivals.

The Hong Kong Tourism Board has also just published the “Total Tourism Expenditure Associated to Inbound Tourism” (TEAIT) for the first half of 2012, which was HK$138.37 billion, a year-on-year increase of 17.7%.

The per capita spending of visitors also went up – with that of overnight visitors up 7.8% to HK$7,736 and that of same-day visitors up 3.8% to HK$2,075.

See also: Hong Kong Visitor Arrivals in August 2011

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