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While tourist arrivals in Hong Kong have continued to soar since the pandemic, fewer visitors from the Philippines were recorded in July this year compared to last year.
Latest statistics supplied by the Hong Kong Tourism
Board showed that a total of 94,753 visitors from the Philippines came last
July, compared with 103,479 for the same month in 2024, for a 8.4% drop.
In contrast, June arrivals which were reported last
month surged to 122,548, for an increase of 11.6% compared to the same month in 2024.
Meanwhile, the Immigration Department has just
announced a new spike in visitor arrivals in Hong Kong, with about 5.03 million visitors
coming in between August 1 and 30 this year.
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This marks a 16 percent increase, compared to about
4.33 million visitors for the same month last year.
Travelers from the Mainland still comprised the
biggest number, with about 4.12 million arriving during the past month, 16%
percent higher than the 3.56 million recorded in 2024.
The July drop in arrivals from the Philippines is
the biggest in months, and was also the biggest decline recorded among the
short-haul markets.
The next biggest drop in terms of percentage was recorded
for Malaysia, at 5.9%.
In contrast, visitors from Taiwan, Japan, Thailand
and most other Asian markets continued to come in droves.
The biggest increase was recorded for Japan, with
47.6% more tourists coming in for the first seven months of the year, at
46,721.
Next was Thailand, with an uptick of 30.7%, for a
total tourist arrival of 40,934.
Third was Taiwan, where 25.4% more tourists arrived
in Hong Kong.
However, the big number of people who visited from the
Philippines in the first six months of the year more than made up for the July
drop.
Hence, from the period of January to July, the overall
figure for visitor arrivals from the Philippines was still up by 18.7%, for a total
of 773,379.
Also, in terms of actual figures, the Philippines
continues to be a main source of visitors, with only Taiwan’s 883,712 tourist
arrivals surpassing it.
Across the board, nearly 4.4 million tourists were
recorded to have visited Hong Kong for the period, for a 12% increase.
The Mainland remained as the biggest source of visitors,
with 3.5 million coming in from across the border, an increase of 11.8 %.
