May 30, 2012
Visitor arrivals to Hong Kong in April rose 14.4 percent from a year earlier to 3.84 million, data from the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) showed.
The figure brings cumulative arrivals for the first four months of 2012 to 15.06 million, up 15.3 percent from the same period last year.
The biggest percentage rise came in visitors from mainland China – up 21.8 percent over the first quarter of the year, while the figures for Europe, Africa and the Middle East were up 4.7 percent and those for South and Southeast Asia were up 3.4 percent for the same period.
