The Hong Kong Tourism Board announced on Tuesday that the city saw 3.4 million visitor arrivals in April – a 17 percent increase year-on-year. Of which, 2.5 million of the arrivals, or 73 percent, were from the mainland.
The Tourism Board also noted that visitor arrivals from long-haul markets such as the US and Canada increased by more than 80 percent year-on-year.
Cumulatively, a total of nearly 14.62 million tourists visited Hong Kong in the first four months of this year, a double from the previous year.
