Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitors on package tours totalled 905,000 in August 2015, up by 8.0% from 838,000 in July and yet down by 20.5% year-on-year. Package tour visitors from Mainland China (777,000) decreased by 17.2% year-on-year, while those from Taiwan (46,000), Hong Kong (21,000), the Republic of Korea (13,000) and Japan (11,000) dropped by 33.6%, 25.3%, 65.6% and 22.5% respectively. Visitors arriving on package tours totalled 849,000, down by 11.2% year-on-year; meanwhile, visitors joining local tours decreased by 69.5% to 56,000. In the first eight months of 2015, visitors on package tours totalled 6,685,000, down by 5.4% year-on-year; those arriving on package tours decreased by 3.6% to 5,609,000.

Outbound residents using services of travel agencies totalled 142,000 in August 2015, down by 8.6% year-on-year; those travelling on package tours increased by 6.5% to 59,000, and the main destinations were Mainland China (82.6% of total), Taiwan (6.5%) and Hong Kong (3.6%). In the first eight months of 2015, outbound residents using services of travel agencies totalled 1,012,000, up slightly by 0.1% year-on-year.

There were 102 hotels and guesthouses operating at the end of August 2015, providing 30,000 guest rooms, up by 7.2% year-on-year. Number of guest rooms in 5-star hotels totalled 20,000, accounting for 66.6% of the total supply.

Number of guests checking into hotels and guesthouses reached 999,000, up by 3.6% year-on-year. Guests from Mainland China (652,000) and Hong Kong (156,000) increased by 2.1% and 24.7% respectively. The average length of stay of guests held stable as August 2014, at 1.4 nights. The average occupancy rate of hotels and guesthouses was 84.4%, up by 2.7 percentage points month-to-month and yet down by 5.6 percentage points year-on-year. Meanwhile, the occupancy rate of 5-star and 4-star hotels led at 85.4% and 85.0%, down by 5.6 and 7.3 percentage points respectively year-on-year. In the first eight months of 2015, guests of hotels and guesthouses totalled 6,751,000 and the average occupancy rate stood at 79.5%, down by 6.4% and 7.0 percentage points respectively year-on-year. Visitor-guests accounted for 67.9% of the total overnight visitors, down by 1.0 percentage point year-on-year.