Bangkok--3 Jul--Francom Asia
Overall visitor arrivals to Hong Kong in May reached more than 1.95 million, the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) announced. The increase was 7.3% more than in May 2005 and brought the total for the first five months of this year to more than 10.3 million, a year-on-year growth of 11.6%.
Some 1.23 million (63.2%) of the May arrivals were classified as overnight visitors, with the remainder of more than 720,000 (36.8%) classified as same-day. Arrivals from almost every key regional source market increased in May, with North Asia showing the greatest percentage gain, at 16.2%. South & Southeast Asia grew by 10.3%, Australia, New Zealand & South Pacific by 5.7%, Europe, Africa & The Middle East by 5.5%, and The Americas by 3.7%.
Mainland China was the source of more than 1.04 million visitors, a rise of 7.6% over May 2005. More than 473,000 Mainland visitors travelled to Hong Kong under the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS), 45.3% of the total and 12.5% more than in May 2005. While Taiwan showed an overall drop of 1.8%, the percentage of overnight arrivals from the island continued to rise, this month by 6.7%.
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