Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals increased by 2% year-on-year to 2,394,195 in October 2013; same-day visitors accounted for 53% of the total, at 1,269,280. In October 2013, visitors from Mainland China increased by 5% year-on-year to 1,514,373, coming primarily from Guangdong Province (708,375) and Fujian Province (64,801); Mainland visitors travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme totalled 677,292. Moreover, visitors from Taiwan, China (89,248) and the Republic of Korea (38,632) increased by 3% and 12%, while those from Hong Kong (543,580) registered a 4% decrease. Long-haul visitors from the US (16,563), the UK (6,017) and France (4,479) increased by 1%, 7% and 24% respectively year-on-year; visitors from Canada (7,579) decreased by 14%, while those from Australia (9,872) held stable. The average length of stay of visitors held stable from a year earlier, at 1.0 day in October 2013; overnight and same-day visitors stayed an average of 2.0 days and 0.2 day respectively. In the first ten months of 2013, visitor arrivals totalled 24,305,018, an increase of 5% year-on-year. Visitors from Mainland China and the Republic of Korea increased by 11% and 6% respectively, while those from Hong Kong and Taiwan, China decreased by 4% and 8%. Long-haul visitors from the US (144,826), Australia (88,352) and Canada (59,988) saw year-on-year decline; on the contrary, those from the UK (49,614) registered year-on-year increase.
