Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitors on package tours totalled 597,000 in February 2018, up by 8.8% year-on-year and yet down by 25.6% month-to-month. Package tour visitors from Mainland China (450,000) and Taiwan (56,000) rose by 11.6% and 55.3% respectively year-on-year, while those from the Republic of Korea (46,000) dropped by 6.1%. In the first two months  of  2018,  visitors  on  package  tours  totalled  1,399,000,  a  surge  of  29.3% year-on-year.

Attributable to the long Lunar New Year holidays, outbound residents using services of travel agencies increased by 15.9% year-on-year to 131,000. Among them, residents travelling on package tours grew by 12.4% to 53,000, with those going to Mainland China (37,000) rising by 10.5%. In the first two months of 2018, outbound residents using services of travel agencies totalled 249,000, up by 9.8% year-on-year.

There were 115 hotels & guesthouses operating at the end of February 2018, an increase of 7 year-on-year. Number of guest rooms rose by 6.4% year-on-year to 39,000, with 5-star hotel rooms rising by 8.5% to 24,000, accounting for 61.2% of the total.

Number  of  guests  of  hotels  &  guesthouses  in  February  2018  rose by 6.4% year-on-year to 1,034,000. Guests coming from Mainland China (732,000) and the Republic of Korea (38,000) increased by 15.0% and 5.6% respectively year-on-year; meanwhile, guests from Hong Kong (109,000) and Taiwan (36,000) dropped by 13.6% and 18.3% respectively. The average length of stay of guests went up by 0.1 night year-on-year to 1.5 nights. The average occupancy rate of hotels & guesthouses stood at 89.2%, up by 2.7 percentage points year-on-year, with that of 5-star hotels reaching 92.8%, representing an increase of 4.8 percentage points.

In the first two months of 2018, guests of hotels & guesthouses totalled 2,210,000, up by 9.8% year-on-year. The average occupancy rate of hotels & guesthouses rose by 5.9 percentage points to 89.8%. The average length of stay of guests  went  up  by 0.1 night  year-on-year  to 1.5  nights.  Visitor-guests  accounted for  72.4%  of  the  total  overnight  visitors, down  slightly by  0.6  percentage  points year-on-year.