Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitors on package tours totalled 769,000 in November 2015, down by 26.6% year-on-year and dropped by 6.9% month-to-month. Package tour visitors from Mainland China (622,000) decreased by 28.0% year-on-year, and those from the Republic of Korea (29,000), Hong Kong (18,000) and Taiwan (37,000) dropped by 19.2%, 27.5% and 39.7% respectively; meanwhile, visitors from Japan (17,000) rose by 27.1%. Visitors arriving on package tours totalled 727,000, down by 17.5% year-on-year, while visitors joining local tours tumbled by 74.8% to 42,000. In the first eleven months of 2015, visitors on package tours totalled 9,054,000, down by 10.2% year-on-year; those arriving on package tours (7,842,000) decreased by 5.8%.

Outbound residents using services of travel agencies totalled 119,000 in November 2015, down by 9.6% year-on-year; those travelling on package tours decreased by 1.3% to 49,000, and the main destinations were Mainland China (72.9% of total), Korea (4.5%) and Taiwan (8.0%). In the first eleven months of 2015, outbound residents using services of travel agencies totalled 1,378,000, down by 1.5% year-on-year.

There were 104 hotels and guesthouses operating at the end of November 2015, providing 32,000 guest rooms, up by 13.4% year-on-year. Number of guest rooms in 5-star hotels totalled 20,000, accounting for 63.1% of the total supply.

Number of guests checking into hotels and guesthouses totalled 932,000 in November 2015, up by 3.3% year-on-year. Guests from Mainland China (581,000) decreased by 1.6%, while those from Hong Kong (132,000) increased by 33.8% year-on-year. The average length of stay of guests rose by 0.1 night year-on-year to 1.5 nights. The average occupancy rate of hotels and guesthouses was 84.6%, down by 5.7 percentage points year-on-year, with 4-star hotels leading at 86.2%, down by 5.8 percentage points. In the first eleven months of 2015, guests of hotels and guesthouses totalled 9,432,000 and the average occupancy rate stood at 80.2%, down by 4.0% and 6.4 percentage points respectively year-on-year. Visitor-guests accounted for 68.2% of the total overnight visitors, down by 0.4 percentage points year-on-year.