Macau receives over 140,000 daily visitors for Easter holiday period
Saturday saw the biggest single-day tally across the three days.
Macau.- Some 420,099 people visited Macau over the Easter holiday period from April 18 to 20. That’s a rise of 3.47 per cent in year-on-year terms. The city recorded a daily average of just over 140,000 visitor arrivals, with the highest number on Saturday (161,309).
The police data does not provide a breakdown of the source markets. It indicates that the Border Gate, the inland crossing point between Macau and Zhuhai, in Guangdong province, experienced the highest traffic, with 160,790 visitor entries over the three days. The next busiest boundary checkpoint was the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, which recorded 114,503 arrivals.
In 2024, 406,000 visitors arrived in Macau during the Easter season, from March 29 to April 1.
Macau visitor numbers rise
The Public Security Police Force (CPSP) reported that Macau surpassed the 10 million visitor mark on April 2, 11 days earlier than in 2024. Some 10.01 million people visited Macau from January to April 2, up 11 per cent in year-on-year terms and 95 per cent of 2019 levels, before the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mainland Chinese tourists accounted for 7.3 million arrivals. Visitors from Hong Kong reached 1.78 million while international tourists reached 690,000. During the Ching Ming Festival break from April 4 to 6, Macau received 409,000 visitors, a rise of 14.7 per cent in year-on-year terms. Some 301,433. visitors were from mainland China and 71,984 from Hong Kong.
