{"id":777025676,"date":"2025-04-24T01:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T04:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777025676"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:37:20","slug":"macau-visitor-numbers-rise-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-numbers-rise-in-march","title":{"rendered":"Macau visitor numbers rise in March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some 3 million people visited Macau in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The&nbsp;<strong>Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)&nbsp;<\/strong>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&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-numbers-dip-in-february\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sequentially<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/imagen_2025-04-24_065548217-900x497.png\" alt=\"Graphic chart: Visitor arrivals in Macau.\" class=\"wp-image-777025677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/imagen_2025-04-24_065548217-900x497.png 900w, https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/imagen_2025-04-24_065548217.png 1248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In the first quarter of the year, 9,862,665 people visited Macau. That&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mainland Chinese tourists\u00a0<\/strong>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 &#8220;one trip per week measure&#8221; while 97,957 travelled under the &#8220;multiple-entry measure&#8221;. Mainland visitors travelling under the \u201ctourist group multi-entry measure\u201d totalled 28,671. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitors from the Taiwan region reached 221,146, up 21.6 per cent year-on-year, while\u00a0the number of tourists from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (1,753,042) decreased by 3.6 per cent.<strong> International visitor arrivals<\/strong> reached 682,442, up 16.9 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of<strong>\u00a0Southeast Asian markets<\/strong>,\u00a0the 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From\u00a0<strong>Northeast Asian markets<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"see-also-container\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label\">See also:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-article\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"related-article__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/08\/httpswww.ggrasia.com60pct-macau-airport-august-flights-cancelled-operator-300x200.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"related-article__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label-strong\">See also:<\/span> <a href='https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-casino-spend-per-visitor-rises-in-february-analysts-say'>Macau casino spend per visitor rises in February, analysts say<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 3 million people visited Macau in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777025678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau recorded over 3 million visitors in March, marking a 12.8% year-on-year increase, though a slight sequential dip. First-quarter visitation rose 11.1% year-on-year, primarily driven by Mainland Chinese tourists, with a notable increase in same-day visitors and a decrease in average length of stay.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)","focusai_location":"Macau, Mainland China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, India, Republic of Korea, Japan, USA, Pearl River Delta, Greater Bay Area, Zhuhai","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on GGR\/NGR?","query":"Given the increase in same-day visitors and shortened average length of stay, what is the projected impact on Macau's Q1 GGR and NGR, particularly for premium mass and VIP segments?"},{"label":"Visitor Mix Strategy?","query":"How will Macau's integrated resort operators adjust their marketing and product strategies to capitalize on the shifting visitor demographics, particularly the strong growth from specific Mainland Chinese and Northeast Asian markets, while addressing the decline in overnight stays?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[257],"class_list":["post-777025676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777025676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777025676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777025676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777025725,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777025676\/revisions\/777025725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777025678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777025676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777025676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777025676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}