The Tourism Board announced that the number of visitors to Hong Kong in September is close to 3.1 million, an increase of about 10% year-on-year, with approximately half of them being overnight visitors. In the first three quarters of this year, the number of visitors to Hong Kong has increased by nearly 40% year-on-year, with Mainland Chinese visitors and non-Mainland visitors increasing by 35% and 59% respectively. (js/w)

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