Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals decreased by 3.4% year-on-year to 2,106,696 in June 2012; same-day visitors (1,041,419) accounted for 49.4% of the total. The average length of stay of visitors decreased by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.0 day, with overnight visitors and same-day visitors staying 1.8 days and 0.2 day respectively. Analyzed by place of residence, visitors from Mainland China increased slightly by 1.8% year-on-year to 1,220,846, coming mostly from Guangdong Province (588,987), Fujian Province (54,543) and Zhejiang Province (47,718); inbound Mainland visitors travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme rose by 11.3% to 517,935 and Japanese visitors (34,614) registered a notable increase of 28.0%. However, visitors from Hong Kong (558,878); Taiwan, China (87,025); and the Republic of Korea (29,792) decreased by 9.9%, 22.1% and 4.2% respectively. Long-haul visitors from Europe (16,492) increased slightly by 0.2% year-on-year but those from the Americas (23,719) and Oceania (9,061) decreased by 4.9% and 1.0% respectively. Visitor arrivals totalled 6,635,394 in the second quarter of 2012, down by 2.6% year-on-year; for the first half year of 2012, visitor arrivals reached 13,577,714 but the rate of increase narrowed to 2.5% year-on-year. Visitors from Mainland China (8,111,212), the Republic of Korea (214,785) and Japan (206,133) increased by 8.5%, 9.9% and 14.8% respectively. On the contrary, visitors from Hong Kong (3,474,329) and Taiwan, China (501,391) decreased by 6.6% and 16.5% respectively.
