Macau visitor numbers dip in February
Some 3.1 million people visited Macau in February.
Macau.- The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) has reported that 3,147,184 people visited Macau in February. The figure was down 4.4 per cent in year-on-year terms and down 13.69 per cent sequentially.
Same-day visitors (1,887,826) rose by 1.1 per cent year-on-year, and overnight visitors (1,259,358) dropped by 11.7 per cent. The average length of stay remained steady at 1.1 days: 0.3 days for same-day visitors and 2.2 days for overnight visitors.
Mainland Chinese tourists accounted for 1,331,09 arrivals. That’s a drop of 6.4 per cent year-on-year. Those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (1,331,091) declined by 11.1 per cent. Among them, 120,002 visited Macau under the “one trip per week measure” while 30,677 travelled under the “multiple-entry measure”. Mainland visitors travelling under the “tourist group multi-entry measure” totalled 9,262. Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area were down by 3.2 per cent year-on-year to 1,122,493.
Visitors from the Taiwan region reached 67,951, up 14.4 per cent year-on-year, while the number of tourists from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (579,843) increased by 4.7 per cent. International visitor arrivals reached 207,728. In year-on-year terms, the figure was up 17.9 per cent.
In terms of Southeast Asian markets, the number of visitors from Indonesia (14,921), Malaysia (14,480), Thailand (11,261) and Singapore (6,762) increased by 19.6 per cent, 18.1 per cent 25.5 and 25.2 per cent respectively, while visitors from the Philippines (38,847) decreased by 2.5 per cent in year-on-year terms.
Visitor numbers from India (4,093) remained stable year-on-year. From Northeast Asian markets, there was growth in visitors from the Republic of Korea (59,330) and Japan (14,444), which increased by 41.8 per cent and 26.2 per cent year-on-year, respectively. As for long-haul markets, the number of visitors from the USA (10,561) experienced a year-on-year increase of 6.6 per cent.
Macau received 6,793,745 visitors in the first two months of the year. That’s an increase of 10.4 per cent when compared to last year. Same-day visitors (4,043,105) grew by 20.8 per cent while overnight visitors (2,750,640) dropped by 2 per cent.
