Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals totalled 2,398,340 in April 2013, up slightly by 0.7% year-on-year; same-day visitors accounted for 51.7% of the total, at 1,238,786. In April 2013, visitors from Mainland China increased by 10.4% year-on-year to 1,536,262, mainly coming from Guangdong Province (647,340) and Fujian Province (65,463); Mainland visitors travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) totalled 613,876. Moreover, visitors from the Republic of Korea (30,616) and Thailand (27,173) increased by 8.9% and 20.0% year-on-year, while those from Hong Kong (538,663) and Taiwan, China (81,607) decreased by 17.7% and 4.8%. Long-haul visitors from the US (15,768), Australia (9,968) and Canada (6,821) decreased by 9.8%, 7.6% and 9.1% respectively year-on-year, whereas those from the Russian Federation (2,726) registered an increase of 21.1%. The average length of stay of visitors stood at 1.0 day in April 2013, down by 0.1 day year-on-year. Overnight and same-day visitors had an average stay of 1.8 days and 0.2 day respectively. In the first four months of 2013, visitor arrivals receded to a 1.6% increase year-on-year, at 9,474,782; with same-day visitors accounting for 51.9% of the total. Visitors from Mainland China increased by 5.9% year-on-year to 5,950,456, while those from Hong Kong (2,262,993) and Taiwan, China (320,195) decreased by 4.7% and 4.6% respectively. Moreover, long-haul visitors from the US (58,622), Australia (38,770) and Canada (24,563) all registered year-on-year declines.
