Macau visitor arrivals up 10.8% in October
Arrivals reached 3.4 million in the tenth month of the year.
Macau.- The Statistics and Census Service of Macau (DSEC) has reported that the number of visitor arrivals to Macau reached 3.4 million in October 2025. That’s a rise of 10.8 per cent year-on-year.
Same-day visitors (2,103,520) and overnight visitors (1,368,957) rose by 17.6 per cent and 1.7 per cent year-on-year, respectively. The average length of stay of same-day visitors was steady at 1.1 days, with that of overnight visitors rising by 0.1 to 2.4 days.
Visitors from the Chinese mainland increased by 12 per cent year-on-year to 2,534,601, with those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (1,321,511) rising by 22.6 per cent. Some 214,368 travelled under the “one trip per week measure”, 97,365 under the “multiple-entry measure” and 11,667 under the “tourist group multi-entry measure”.
Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area rose by 13.8 per cent year-on-year to 1,318,837, driven by a a 50.9 per cent rise in the number of visitors from Zhuhai. Visitors from the Taiwan region (92,165) were up by 34.2 per cent year-on-year, while those from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (584,767) decreased by 1 per cent.
International visitors totalled 260,944, up by 22.9 per cent year-on-year. Those from Thailand (26,299) rose by 118.5 per cent and those from the Philippines (44,863), Indonesia (16,985), Malaysia (16,206) and Singapore (10,140) by 15.3 per cent, 24.7 per cent, 1.8 per cent and 6.1 per cent respectively.
Visitors from India (11,143) climbed by 36.8 per cent year-on-year. From Northeast Asian markets, visitors from the Republic of Korea (52,057) and Japan (12,675) grew by 10.6 per cent and 32.1 per cent respectively. As regards long-haul, visitors from the USA (15,467) were up by 18.8 per cent year-on-year.
Analysed by checkpoint, number of visitor arrivals by land grew by 12.6 per cent while those arriving through the Border Gate and Hengqin port increased by 17 per cent and 36.9 per cent respectively. Visitor arrivals by air (280,374) rose by 11.1 per cent, while those by sea (333,424) dropped by 3.2 per cent.
The Public Security Police Force (CPSP) reported that Macau received 1.14 million visitor arrivals during the Golden Week holiday period, which ran from October 1 to 8, slightly below the forecast of 1.2 million but above 2024’s tally of 993,117 arrivals, although the holiday was shorter in 2024.
The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) reported that Macau’s gross gaming revenue (GGR) was MOP24.09bn (US$3bn) in October. That’s an increase of 15.9 per cent in year-on-year terms and up 31.7 per cent compared to September’s GGR of MOP18.3bn (US$2.27bn).
In the first ten months of 2025, number of visitor arrivals rose by 14.1 per cent year-on-year to 33,143,547; same-day visitors (19,382,049) and overnight visitors (13,761,498) grew by 24.1 per cent and 2.4 per cent respectively. Macau’s GGR for the first ten months was MOP205.43bn (US$25.64bn), an 8 per cent increase year-on-year but 16.7 per cent below the January-October period in 2019, when GGR totalled MOP246.74bn (US$30.8bn).
