The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region saw 1.77 million visitor arrivals as tourists from the Chinese mainland flocked to the city during the Spring Festival holiday, according to the Immigration Department (ImmD) of the HKSAR government.

The arrivals recorded during the nine-day holiday period from Feb 15 to 23 included 1.5 million arrivals from the mainland and 267,000 from overseas, with a daily avrage of 196,700, data from the ImmD website showed. 

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The number of visitor arrivals peaked on Wednesday, the second day of the Chinese New Year, with 241,659 arrivals, including 212,292 from the mainland and 29,367 from abroad.

The holiday period ended Monday, which still saw 179,882 visitor arrivals, including 153,558 from the mainland.

The ImmD earlier implemented measures to cope with the heavy traffic during the festive period, including minimizing leave for frontline officers and deploying additional security guards for crowd management support.

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Hong Kong recorded 4.81 million tourist arrivals in January, while visitor arrivals reached nearly 50 million in 2025, with more than three-fourths of visitors coming from the mainland, according to the Hong Kong Tourism Board.