Macau visitor arrivals up nearly 15% year-on-year
Arrivals reached 19.22 million in the first six months of the year.
Macau.- The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) has indicated that there were 19,218,540 visitor arrivals to Macau in the first half of 2025, up by 14.9 per cent year-on-year. Same-day visitors (11,182,913) and overnight visitors (8,035,627) rose by 25.8 per cent and 2.6 per cent, respectively.
The cumulative average length of stay of visitors decreased by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.1 days, due to the growth in the proportion of same-day visitors. The average durations for same-day visitors (0.2 day) and overnight visitors (2.3 days) both remained unchanged year-on-year.
The number of visitors from the Chinese mainland increased by 19.3 per cent year-on-year to 13,767,810, with those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (7,412,318) rising by 24.6 per cent. Some 867,492 travelled under the one trip per week measure, 241,257 under the multiple-entry measure and 72,149 under the tourist group multi-entry measure.
Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area rose by 25.7 per cent year-on-year to 7,016,216, driven by a rise of 57 per cent in the number from Zhuhai. Visitors from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (3,647,321) and the Taiwan region (461,735) were up by 1.1 per cent and 14 per cent year-on-year, respectively.
International visitors totalled 1,341,674, up by 14.8 per cent. Visitors from the Philippines (273,715), Indonesia (104,608), Malaysia (90,259) and Thailand (80,932) rose by 16.8 per cent, 13.8 per cent, 6 per cent and 8.8 per cent respectively, while those from Singapore (54,543) decreased by 0.7 per cent.
With respect to the South Asian markets, visitors from India (58,309) increased by 6.2 per cent. For the Northeast Asian markets, visitors from the Republic of Korea (282,151) and Japan (76,435) grew by 21.7 per cent and 23.5 per cent, respectively. Regarding long-haul markets, visitors from the USA (76,457) were up by 9.9 per cent.
Analysed by checkpoint, the number of visitor arrivals by land (15,780,124; 82.1 per cent of total) grew by 20.4 per cent while arrivals by sea (1,978,499; 10.3 per cent) and by air (1,459,917; 7.6 per cent) dropped by 5.2 per cent and 4.1 per cent, respectively.
In June 2025, the number of visitor arrivals rose by 13.3 per cent year-on-year to 2,891,003; same-day visitors (1,611,641) and overnight visitors (1,279,362) grew by 22.5 per cent and 3.6 per cent respectively. Meanwhile, the average length of stay of visitors remained at 1.2 days year-on-year. The duration of stay for same-day visitors (0.2 day) remained unchanged, while overnight visitors (2.4 days) increased by 0.1 day year-on-year.
