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- July's visitor arrivals hit 2.45 million in Hong Kong
Date: 31-Aug-2007 Sources: (People's Daily)
Total visitor arrivals to Hong Kong exceeded 2.45 million in July, up 12.3 percent over the same month last year, the Hong Kong Tourism Board said Thursday.
The rise took the cumulative total from January to July to over 15.48 million, with 7.7 percent year-on-year growth.
Arrivals from most key regional source markets showed growth, with double-digit increases seen from Europe, Africa and the Middle East at 17.7 percent, the Chinese Mainland at 16.2 percent, Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific at 13.5 percent,
North Asia at 11.5 percent, South and Southeast Asia at 8.1 percent and the Americas at 7.9 percent.
Visitors from the Chinese Mainland represented 56.6 percent of July's arrivals in Hong Kong. Travelers under the Individual Visit Scheme numbered 799,582 for the month, 57.5 percent of the visitors from the Chinese Mainland, up 30.7 percent over the same month last year.
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