Asia – dominant source market for international visitor arrival into Asia Pacific
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Asia continued to dominate the supply of international visitor arrival numbers (IVAs) into Asia Pacific in 2018, generating close to 63 per cent of the 696.5 million IVAs into the region.
According to the data from the Annual Travel Monitor 2019 Final Edition (ATM) released by the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) recently , Africa outbound into Asia Pacific had the strongest annual increase at over 13 per cent year-on-year, followed by Europe at almost 11 per cent and then Asia at 7.3 per cent. The nondescript ‘Others’ category increased by 7.5 per cent in 2018, year-on-year.
Asia generated close to 30.3 million additional foreign arrivals, followed by Europe with more than 8.5 million and then the Americas with just over 5.9 million. Africa generated a volume increase of just under half-a-million IVAs in 2018.
Out of Africa it was North Africa in particular that generated the largest volume of additional foreign arrivals into Asia Pacific between 2017 and 2018.
While across the Americas, North America produced the strongest annual incremental increase in foreign arrivals into Asia Pacific in 2018, generating almost 4.2 million of the 5.917 million increase in arrivals from the Americas between 2017 and 2018 (70.8 per cent ).
In Asia, Northeast Asia as an origin market showed the strongest increase in absolute numbers out of this region between 2017 and 2018.
The collective markets of Europe added more than 8.5 million IVAs into Asia Pacific between 2017 and 2018, with West and East Europe supplying the bulk of that additional volume between those two years, PATA states
Additional IVAs into Asia Pacific from the Pacific between 2017 and 2018 were mostly out of Oceania.
Nov. 10 , 2019
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