Visitor Arrivals Exceed 80,000 In October

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  • The Tourism Board says visitors come to Hong Kong mainly for overnight stopover, business trips or family visits. File image: Shutterstock

    The Tourism Board says visitors come to Hong Kong mainly for overnight stopover, business trips or family visits. File image: Shutterstock

The Hong Kong Tourism Board on Tuesday said visitor arrivals last month were up 22 percent from September, to around 80,000.

In a statement, it said overseas visitors rose by 20 percent month-on-month to almost 33,000, while mainland visitors were down seven percent to around 47,000.

"Visitors came to Hong Kong mainly for overnight stopover, business trips, family visits or other essential travel needs," the statement read.

In total, the board said Hong Kong has recorded around 330,000 visitors in the first ten months of this year.

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