Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals decreased by 1.8% year-on-year to 2,374,110 in November 2012, and same-day visitors (1,214,337) accounted for 51.1% of the total. The average length of stay of visitors stood at 1.0 day, up by 0.1 day year-on-year, with overnight and same-day visitors staying 1.8 days and 0.2 day respectively. Visitors from Mainland China increased by 2.9% from November 2011 to 1,503,158, coming mostly from Guangdong Province (654,625) and Fujian Province (68,307); Mainland visitors travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme increased by 12.8% to 632,640. Visitor arrivals from the Republic of Korea (34,686) increased by 14.2%; however, those coming from Hong Kong (529,911); Taiwan, China (79,884); and Malaysia (34,318) decreased by 10.0%, 11.0% and 3.3% respectively. Long-haul visitors from Europe (28,763) increased by 7.7%, while those from the Americas (29,847) and Oceania (10,359) decreased by 3.0% and 7.3% respectively. In the first eleven months of 2012, visitor arrivals totalled 25,586,441 but the rate of increase narrowed to 0.5% year-on-year. Visitors from Mainland China (15,407,183), the Republic of Korea (400,623) and Japan (369,048) increased by 5.0%, 11.2% and 3.8% respectively, while those from Hong Kong (6,469,327) and Taiwan, China (983,238) decreased by 6.6% and 12.9%.
