Macau visitor arrivals up 25% year-on-year in May
In the first five months of the year, visitor arrivals reached 16.33 million.
Macau.- Information from Macau’s Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) shows that visitor arrivals increased by 25.3 per cent year-on-year to 3,372,081 in May 2025. Same-day visitors (1,992,296) and overnight visitors (1,379,785) rose by 39.2 per cent and 9.4 per cent year-on-year, respectively.
The average length of stay decreased by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.1 days due to the growth in the proportion of same-day visitors. The duration of stay for same-day visitors (0.2 day) and overnight visitors (2.3 days) remained unchanged.
As for the source of visitors, visitors from mainland China increased by 31.4 per cent year-on-year to 2,439,936, with those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (1,309,168) rising by 46.5 per cent. Some 166,602 travelled under the “one trip per week measure”, 48,626 under the “multiple-entry measure” and 17,867 under the “tourist group multi-entry measure”.
Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area rose by 42.5 per cent year-on-year to 1,329,383, driven by a rise of 66.1 per cent in the number of visitors from Zhuhai. Visitors from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (621,106) and the Taiwan region (78,828) rose by 6.7 per cent and 14.3 per cent year-on-year respectively.
According to the Statistics and Census Service, international visitors totalled 232,211, up by 25.6 per cent. Visitors from the Philippines (57,018), Indonesia (16,149) and Thailand (15,024) rose by 59 per cent, 11.3 per cent and 43.1 per cent year-on-year respectively, while those from Malaysia (14,567) and Singapore (8,455) decreased by 3.5 per cent and 9.8 per cent.
In South Asian markets, visitors from India (14,774) increased by 7.4 per cent year-on-year. For Northeast Asian markets, visitors from the Republic of Korea (41,765) and Japan (13,500) grew by 22.8 per cent and 36 per cent respectively. As for long-haul markets, visitors from the USA (11,241) were up by 12.1 per cent year-on-year.
Analysed by checkpoint, the number of visitor arrivals by land (2,780,906; 82.5 per cent of total) grew by 32.4 per cent year-on-year in May; those arriving through the Hengqin port showed growth of over 70 per cent. Visitor arrivals by sea (347,388; 10.3 per cent) increased by 4.5 per cent year-on-year, while those by air (243,787; 7.2 per cent) dropped by 5.9 per cent.
From January to May 2025, 16,327,537 visitor arrivals were recorded, up by 15.2 per cent year-on-year; same-day visitors (9,571,272) and overnight visitors (6,756,265) grew by 26.4 per cent and 2.4 per cent respectively. Meanwhile, the cumulative average length of stay of visitors shortened by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.1 days. The duration of stay for same-day visitors (0.2 day) remained unchanged, while that for overnight visitors (2.3 days) increased by 0.1 day.
