Macau Labour Day holiday numbers surpass expectations

The figure was up 40.6 per cent in year-on-year terms.

Macau.- The Public Security Police has reported that 850,034 visitors arrived in Macau during the Labour Day golden week from May 1 to 5. That’s an increase of 40.6 per cent in year-on-year terms and surpasses the estimate of 635,000 to 700,000 forecast by Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes,

Average daily visitation was 170,000, up 40.8 per cent compared to last year. Daily arrivals peaked at 221,000 on Friday (May 2), the second day of the holiday period.

There were 379,153 border crossings via the Border Gate checkpoint between Macau and Zhuhai in Guangdong province, 155,264 via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and 135,691 via the Macau boundary crossing at Hengqin.

In 2024, 604,395 visitors arrived in Macau during the Labour Day golden week. That represented 84 per cent of what was recorded during the holiday in 2019.

Macau visitor numbers rise in Q1

In the first quarter of the year, 9,862,665 people visited Macau. That’s an increase of 11.1 per cent in year-on-year terms. Same-day visitors (5,823,384) rose by 21.5 per cent year-on-year, and overnight visitors (4,039,281) dropped by 1.1 per cent. The average length of stay decreased by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.1 days.

Mainland Chinese tourists accounted for 7,206,035 arrivals, a rise of 14.5 per cent year-on-year. Those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (4,011,208) rose by 15.6 per cent. Some 381,172 visited Macau under the “one trip per week measure” while 97,957 travelled under the “multiple-entry measure”. Mainland visitors travelling under the “tourist group multi-entry measure” totalled 28,671.

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