Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that number of visitor arrivals soared by 206.9% month-to-month to 227,113 in August 2020, attributable to an increase in Mainland visitors travelling under different types of travel endorsements; however, the figure represented a decline of 93.7% year-on-year. Same-day visitors and overnight  visitors  totalled  156,481 and 70,632 respectively. With the proportion of same-day visitors (68.9%) rising by 15.7 percentage points year-on-year, the average length of stay of visitors went down by 0.3 day to 0.9 day in August. The duration for same-day visitors (0.1 day) shortened by 0.1 day year-on-year, whereas that for overnight visitors (3.3 days) rose by 1.0 day.

In terms of source of visitors, number of Mainland visitors fell by 92.4% year-on-year to 200,833, with 13,043 travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme. Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area added up to 130,781, of whom 88,470 came from Zhuhai. Meanwhile, there were 23,415 visitors from Hong Kong and 2,862 from Taiwan.

Analysed by checkpoint, visitor arrivals by land totalled 224,973 in August, and 88.8% of them arrived through the Border Gate (199,756). Besides, there were 1,739 visitor arrivals by air.

In the  first eight  months  of  2020, number of visitor arrivals declined by 87.0%year-on-year to 3,570,019. Same-day visitors (1,929,909) and overnight visitors (1,640,110) slid by 86.7% and 87.3% respectively year-on-year. The average length of stay of visitors increased by 0.2 day year-on-year to 1.4 days, with that of overnight visitors (2.8 days) rising by 0.6 day while that of same-day visitors (0.2 day) staying unchanged. Visitors from mainland China (2,606,911), Hong Kong (682,177) and Taiwan (85,761) recorded year-on-yeardecreases of more than 80%.