Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals decreased by 1.2% year-on-year to 2,347,646 in October 2012, and same-day visitors (1,232,327) accounted for 52.5% 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 1.9 days and 0.2 day respectively. Visitors from Mainland China decreased by 1.4% from October 2011 to 1,445,420, coming mostly from Guangdong Province (669,658) and Fujian Province (66,755); Mainland visitors travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme increased by 6.0% to 612,073. Visitor arrivals from Hong Kong (566,342), the Republic of Korea (34,502) and the Philippines (25,541) increased by 1.4%, 26.0% and 1.4% respectively; however, those coming from Taiwan, China (86,274); and Japan (25,562) decreased by 10.1% and 21.6% respectively. Long-haul visitors from Europe (25,339) increased by 3.9%, while those from the Americas (28,643) and Oceania (11,274) decreased by 2.6% and 8.5% respectively. In the first ten months of 2012, visitor arrivals totalled 23,212,331 but the rate of increase narrowed to 0.8% year-on-year. Visitors from Mainland China (13,904,025), the Republic of Korea (365,937) and Japan (344,629) increased by 5.2%, 10.9% and 9.1% respectively, while those from Hong Kong (5,939,416) and Taiwan, China (903,354) decreased by 6.3% and 13.1%.
