HK arrivals hit record
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In a press release, the Hong Kong Tourism Board said the achievement represents about 17% growth over last August. Arrivals from Mainland China also increased by a substantial 23.5% to over 1.68 million, the best-ever monthly record for the Mainland.
All long- and short-haul market regions showed positive gain this August. On top of Mainland China, Europe, Africa & the Middle East and Australia, New Zealand & South Pacific also performed exceptionally well.
Among the individual source markets, both South Korea (+30.7%) and the Philippines (+28.5%), which have been identified by the HKTB as high-potential markets, as well as the Middle East (+28.7%) and Russia (+17.1%), which are considered emerging markets, continued their robust performance.
In August, there were more than 1.78 million overnight visitor arrivals (64.6% of the total), with the remainder of more than 976,000 (35.4%) classified as same-day in-town visitors.
From January to August this year, the total arrivals stood at more than 18.24 million - 9% more over the same period last year.
The average occupancy across all categories of hotels in August was 91%, two percentage points higher than in August 2006.
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