Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals decreased slightly by 0.2% year-on-year to 2,161,566 in September 2012; same-day visitors (1,082,468) accounted for 50.1% of the total. The average length of stay of visitors stood at 1.0 day, up by 0.1 day year-on-year, with overnight and same-day visitors staying 1.9 days and 0.2 day respectively.
Analysed by place of residence, visitors from Mainland China increased modestly by 0.8% year-on-year to 1,255,962, coming mostly from Guangdong Province (570,571), Fujian Province (59,134) and Zhejiang Province (45,393); Mainland visitors travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme rose by 11.4% to 500,395.

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