The Hong Kong Tourism Board announced on Friday that they have preliminary recorded four million new tourist arrivals in February, with 80 percent of them from the mainland.
The HKTB said that driven by the long Lunar New Year holiday and a number of major New Year events, the preliminary number of tourists that visited Hong Kong in February was four million, marking a 1.7 times year-on-year increase.
Among the visitors, 80 percent were mainland visitors, accounting for 3.246 million arrivals, nearly double the year-on-year figure.
Cumulatively, a total of nearly 7.83 million tourists visited Hong Kong in the first two months of this year, a three-fold increase from the same period last year.
The average daily visitor volume was about 130,000.