Macau visitor numbers rise in March
Some 3 million people visited Macau in March.
Macau.- The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) has reported that 3,068,920 people visited Macau in March. The figure was up 12.8 per cent in year-on-year terms and down 2.49 per cent sequentially.
Same-day visitors (1,780,279) rose by 23.3 per cent year-on-year, and overnight visitors (1,288,641) increased by 0.9 per cent. The average length of stay shortened by 0.1 of a day year-on-year to 1.1 days. The duration for same-day visitors remained at 0.2 days and that for overnight visitors at 2.3 days.
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.
Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area rose by 18.8 per cent year-on-year to 3,582,016, driven by a 50.3 per cent rise in the number of visitors from Zhuhai.
Visitors from the Taiwan region reached 221,146, up 21.6 per cent year-on-year, while the number of tourists from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (1,753,042) decreased by 3.6 per cent. International visitor arrivals reached 682,442, up 16.9 per cent.
In terms of Southeast Asian markets, the number of visitors from the Philippines (126,559), Indonesia (53,643), Malaysia (47,094) and Singapore (26,356) increased by 10.4 per cent, 36.5 per cent 18.2 and 2.8 per cent respectively, while visitors from Thailand (35,073) decreased by 9.2 per cent. Visitor numbers from India (19,135) dropped by 3.4 per cent year-on-year.
From Northeast Asian markets, there was growth in visitors from the Republic of Korea (172,255) and Japan (44,663), which increased by 33 per cent and 23.6 per cent year-on-year, respectively. As for long-haul markets, the number of visitors from the USA (36,629) experienced a year-on-year increase of 9.7 per cent.
Analysed by checkpoint, the number of visitor arrivals by land (8,100,541; 82.1 per cent of the total) grew by 15.4 per cent in the first quarter, those arriving through the Border Gate and the Hengqin port by 20 per cent each and arrivals by air (743,014) by 0.9 per cent. Arrivals by sea (1,019,110) dropped by 8.9 per cent.
