ACCORDING to findings contained within the Annual Tourism Monitor 2015 Final Edition by PATA, international arrivals into the Asia-Pacific region has continued the strong growth momentum of previous years with a gain of 5.4 per cent for 1H2015, resulting in close to 12.5 million additional arrivals year-on-year.
This continues the full year growth of 6.1 per cent during calendar year 2014, which culminated in a total foreign inbound volume of more than 550 million.
The study also found that international visitor arrivals to the Asia-Pacific region have collectively shown significant growth in the last five years, rising from almost 455 million in 2010 to over 552 million in 2014.
China, Hong Kong and the US were the top three source markets for all international arrivals within the Asia-Pacific region in 2014, although there were significant differences between sub-regions.
“Understanding the immediate impacts of changes in the foreign inbound markets allows us to contain the negative consequences and boost the positive,” said Mario Hardy, CEO of PATA.
“This final edition of the 2015 PATA Annual Tourism Monitor therefore provides an important first step in quantifying these changes and allowing us to make resource deployment decisions based on those quantification metrics.”
