Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals totalled 3,083,406 in December 2019, a decrease of 13.6% year-on-year. Same-day visitors (1,607,764) and overnight visitors (1,475,642) dropped by 12.1% and 15.3% respectively. The average length of stay of visitors held steady year-on-year at 1.2 days, with that of overnight visitors and same-day visitors remaining unchanged at 2.2 days and 0.2 day respectively.

Visitors from mainland China decreased by 14.5% year-on-year to 2,094,810 (54.6% of them were from Guangdong Province), with those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme falling by 15.9% to 975,882. Visitors from the Republic of Korea (46,903), Hong Kong (655,129) and Taiwan (79,714) went down by 39.3%, 3.9% and 14.3% respectively. Meanwhile, visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area increased by 27.5% year-on-year to 1,047,947; those coming from Zhuhai (324,415) and Guangzhou (211,459) surged by 37.4% and 29.5% respectively.

For the whole year of 2019, visitor arrivals reached 39,406,181, an increase of 10.1% year-on-year. Same-day visitors (20,773,482) and overnight visitors (18,632,699) rose by 20.0% and 0.8% respectively. The average length of stay of total visitors (1.2 days), overnight visitors (2.2 days) and same-day visitors (0.2 day) held stable year-on-year. Analysed by country/place, visitors from mainland China (27,923,219), Hong Kong (7,354,094) and Taiwan (1,063,355) went up by 10.5%, 16.2% and 0.2% respectively, whereas those from the Republic of Korea (743,026) reduced by 8.6%. Visitors from Canada (75,060) and the United Kingdom (59,284) recorded year-on-year increases, while those from the United States (199,800) and Australia (84,030) decreased. Besides, visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area totalled 11,411,894 in 2019, a growth of 26.3% year-on-year; those coming from Zhuhai (3,246,957) and Guangzhou (2,284,292) leapt by 45.9% and 19.5% respectively.

Analysed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by land jumped by 32.2% year-on-year to 29,291,186 in 2019, with those arriving through the Border Gate (20,931,567) growing by 14.9%; meanwhile, visitors entering via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (5,381,058) accounted for 18.4% of the total. Visitor arrivals by air grew by 16.7% year-on-year to 3,847,376, with those arriving at the airport (3,836,692) rising by 17.1%. On the other hand, visitor arrivals by sea declined by 39.5% year-on-year to 6,267,619; those disembarking at the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal (3,563,237) and the Taipa Ferry Terminal (2,704,382) tumbled by 41.7% and 36.3% respectively.