Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that number of visitor arrivals grew by 29.6% month-to-month to 581,986 in October 2020; however, the figure represented a decline of 81.9% year-on-year. Overnight visitors and same-day visitors totalled 308,222 and 273,764 respectively. On account of a growth of 7.0 percentage points in the proportion of overnight visitors (53.0%), the average length of stay of visitors went up by 0.2 day year-on-year to 1.4 days. The average length of stay of overnight visitors (2.7 days) rose by 0.3 day year-on-year, whereas that for same-day visitors (0.1 day) shortened by 0.1 day.

In terms of source of visitors, number of Mainland visitors fell by 77.0% year-on-year to 539,482, with those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme adding up to 174,002. Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area totalled 282,170, of whom 135,991 (48.2% of total) came from Zhuhai. Meanwhile, there were 37,909 visitors from Hong Kong and 4,574 from Taiwan.

Analysed by checkpoint, visitor arrivals by land totalled 543,497 in October, and 81.5% of them (442,764) arrived through the Border Gate. Visitor arrivals by air and by sea totalled 26,778 and 11,711 respectively.

In the first ten months of 2020, number of visitor arrivals declined by 86.2% year-on-year to 4,601,090. Number of same-day visitors (2,493,147) and overnight visitors (2,107,943) slid by 85.9% and 86.6% year-on-year respectively. The average length of stay of visitors went up 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) remaining unchanged.