Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals totalled 2,312,321 in January 2013, down by 6.1% year-on-year and same-day visitors (1,195,450) accounted for 51.7% of the total. In January 2013, visitors from Mainland China decreased by 1.4% year-on-year to 1,473,785; those from Guangdong Province, Fujian Province and Shanghai totalled 683,776; 67,180 and 51,033 respectively. Meanwhile, there were 616,066 Mainland visitors travelling to Macao under the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS). Moreover, visitor arrivals from Hong Kong (509,826); Taiwan, China (76,841) and Japan (26,904) decreased by 20.1%, 10.2% and 15.0% year-on-year respectively; while those from the Republic of Korea (52,668) and Thailand (21,810) increased by 14.1% and 81.0%. As regards long-haul visitors, those from the US (14,630), Australia (12,203), Canada (5,992) and the UK (4,317) decreased by 5.1%, 8.8%, 11.7% and 9.0% respectively in January 2013. The average length of stay of visitors stood at 1.0 day in January 2013, up by 0.1 day year-on-year, with overnight visitors and same-day visitors staying 1.9 days and 0.2 day respectively.
