Lets get those numbers from the Tourism Bureau, MOTC. Clicking on the .XLS links for June 2016 and July 2016, we find...
June 2016
HKK/Macao 143,276
China 271,478
July 2016
Hkk/Macao 149,361
China 299,642
As my readers can see, Beijing once again slashed tourism arrivals in an upward direction, resulting in a total negative deficit of roughly 28,000 for China.
Or, as normal people might put it: tourism from China rose from June to July, by 34,000 for China + HKK/Macao, and roughly 28,000 for China. The total for HKK/Macao/China is nearly as high as it was in May...
May 2016
HKK/Macao 125,302
China 327,254
April 2016
HKK/Macao 110,716
China 375,567
The Feb and March totals for both places exceeded 500K. But we are just 30,000 under the April total for both. Tourism overall also rose, from 817K to 848K.
Can't wait to read more brilliant media analysis like this...
That, in turn, has hurt large hotels, mid-level restaurants and tour bus operators, said Kuo Tzu-yi, director of the Pingtung Tourism Assn. in southern Taiwan. His association covers Kenting National Park, a strip of beaches popular with mainland Chinese tourists. Crowds there had visibly thinned by mid-July....yes, I can easily see how those crowds thinned with the addition of 28,000 more tourists. I mean, they were probably thin compared to the well-fed Taiwanese...
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Interesting indeed.
ReplyDeleteThough how does this stack with seasonal changes from 2015's summer?
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI'm curious about these numbers. I hear reports of less tour bus travelers - one first hand. A friend's uncle tells me he was operating 6 days a week before. Now he's happy to get one booking a week. And several tourist locations have visibly less China tourists. I don't doubt the numbers, but how can this be explained? Do you have any insight on this?
Well, group tours have been reduced. The rising Hong Kong numbers suggest that tour companies are adapting by moving people through Hong Kong, but that is me speculating...
ReplyDeleteGrant, it does look like seasonal changes + economic effects. Strange for numbers that were supposed to be slashed.....
Could be seasonal or economic but I did notice fewer numbers making entry at Taoyuan much more tolerable.
ReplyDeleteHello! Looking at these statistics, I noticed the very sharp increase of people whose country of origin is "unstated" (more than 18.000 people, compared to less than 200 last year same month. that's weird... I'm wondering what are they doing at customs?). Also, the year on year decrease of Chinese visitors is -15%, which is not much (I guess it brings us back to the 2014 levels or so), but as Chinese tour groups use a limited array of facilities, it is logical that the latest may suffer. The same way the increase of Chinese visitors was not profiting the industry as a whole, its decrease does not harm it as a whole either (and it is balanced by other foreign visitors who may have higher spending rates anyway)
ReplyDeleteHow can there be "unstated" countries? Political refugees?
ReplyDeleteI've been selling food in hualien for 8 years, and by far this is the worst summer season ever. The local 7 11 bosses concur, my buds in taitung county also say the same thing. my fare has only improved year on year, so it's nothing that i'm doing different. This may have nothing to do with foreign tourists, who were never a significant part of my business.
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