Reported by Vegas Tang, Ian Mak

According to the latest statistics from PartnerNet, a website developed by the Hong Kong Tourism Board, total Chinese visitors who stayed overnight has been dropped from 14,355,800 to 13,562,600, 5.5% in other words. This is far more than the decrease of the total number of overnight visitors, who dropped from to 19,706,500, 4.8%.  The proportion of mainland visitors to overall attendance also dropped to 40 percent, from 50 percent. Comparing the first nine months of number of visitors came from different region, most regions had recorded a decrease, and the drop of visitors from Mainland is the most significant among the regions.

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