Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitors on package tours totalled 984,000 in January 2015, up by 24.0% year-on-year; visitors arriving on package tours (710,000) accounted for 72.1% of the total, while those joining local tours shared 27.9%. Package tour visitors from Mainland China surged by 31.0% year-on-year to 794,000, while those from Guangdong Province rose by 2.2% to 307,000. Visitors from the Republic of Korea (38,000) increased by 14.8% year-on-year, whereas those from Taiwan (56,000) and Hong Kong (31,000) decreased by 5.1% and 16.2% respectively.

Outbound residents using services of travel agencies were 121,000 in January 2015, up by 4.8% year-on-year; those travelling on package tours totalled 45,000 and the main destination was Mainland China (76.3% of total), followed by Hong Kong (8.4%) and Taiwan (6.4%).

There were 97 hotels and guesthouses operating at the end of January 2015, providing 28,000 guest rooms, similar to that in January 2014; 5-star hotels accounted for 66.4% of the total supply, with 18,000 rooms.

A total of 803,000 guests checked into hotels and guesthouses in January 2015, down by 8.0% year-on-year. Guests from Mainland China (533,000) decreased by 2.6%, while those from Hong Kong (76,000) tumbled by 31.7%. The average length of stay of guests held stable as January 2014, at 1.4 nights. The average occupancy rate of hotels and guesthouses decreased by 1.5 percentage points year-on-year to 79.4%, with 5-star hotels leading at 80.6%, down by 2.5 percentage points.

In January 2015, visitor-guests accounted for 69.0% of the total overnight visitors, down by 1.3 percentage points year-on-year.