TABLE-Hong Kong November visitor arrivals up 18.7 pct yr/yr
Dec 24 (Reuters) - Visitor arrivals in Hong Kong in November rose 18.7 percent from a year earlier to about 4.22 million, data from the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) showed on Monday. The figure brings cumulative arrivals for the first 11 months of 2012 to about 43.84 million, up 16.1 percent from the same period last year.
Visitor arrivals: (pct change yr/yr):
Nov Oct Sep Aug Jul Jun May 18.7 11.9 18.8 20.5 13.8 19.3 12.7
Following is a summary of visitor arrivals by Country/Territory in November and the first 11 months of 2012:
November 2012 Jan-Nov 2012 No. of Yr/Yr No. of Yr/Yr Country/Territory Arrivals % growth Arrivals % growth Mainland China 3,040,360 +29.7 31,431,854 +24.4 South & Southeast Asia 336,516 +0.3 3,233,590 -2.6
Europe, Africa &
The Middle East 215,706 +1.5 2,045,777 +1.3 The Americas 164,120 -7.2 1,639,618 -1.8 North Asia 171,006 -14.8 2,135,629 +2.8 Taiwan 163,147 +4.7 1,898,362 -3.9
Australia, New Zealand &
South Pacific 56,178 -7.5 673,779 -2.4 Macau 69,904 +5.3 778,516 +4.5 TOTAL 4,216,937 +18.7 43,837,125 +16.1
(Reporting by Christina Lo in HONG KONG; Editing by Prateek Chatterjee)