{"id":777026761,"date":"2025-05-22T10:57:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T13:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777026761"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:43:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:43:33","slug":"macau-visitor-numbers-rise-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-numbers-rise-in-april","title":{"rendered":"Macau visitor numbers rise in April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some 3 million people visited Macau in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) <\/strong>has reported that 3,092,791 people visited Macau in March. The figure was up 18.9 per cent in year-on-year terms and 0.78 per cent sequentially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Same-day visitors (1,755,592) rose by 30.1 per cent year-on-year, and overnight visitors (1,337,199) by 6.9 per cent. The average length of stay decreased by 0.1 day 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.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mainland Chinese tourists\u00a0<\/strong>accounted for 2,126,212 arrivals. That\u2019s a rise of 22.4 per cent year-on-year. Those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (1,064,231) rose by 34.1 per cent. Some 149,359 visited Macau under the “one trip per week measure” while 18,015 travelled under the “tourist group multi-entry measure”. Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area rose by 34.5 per cent year-on-year to 1,066,367, driven by a rise of 63 per cent in the number of visitors from Zhuhai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visitors from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (659,844) increased by 13.4 per cent, while visitors from the Taiwan region reached 76,721, up 4.4 per cent year-on-year. International visitor arrivals<\/strong> reached 230,014, up 10.4 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of\u00a0Southeast Asian markets<\/strong>,\u00a0the number of visitors from the Philippines (43,097), Thailand (20,463) and Indonesia (19,656) rose by 20.2 per cent, 24.1 per cent and 0.4 per cent year-on-year, while visitors from Malaysia (14,776) and Singapore (7,888) decreased by 17.6 per cent and 8.7 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Northeast Asian markets<\/strong>, visitor numbers from Japan (8,646) rose by 4.1 per cent, while there was a 0.7 per cent decline in the number of visitors from the Republic of Korea (37,215). As for long-haul markets, the number of visitors from the USA (13,429) experienced a year-on-year increase of 4.3 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analysed by checkpoint, there was an increase in the number of visitor arrivals by land (2,539,548) and sea (316,999), which grew by 26.2 per cent and 0.5 per cent. Visitor arrivals by air (236,244) dropped by 13.4 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macau received 12,955,456 <\/strong>visitors in the first four months of the year. That\u2019s an increase of 12.9 per cent when compared to last year. Same-day visitors (7,578,976) grew by 23.4 per cent while overnight visitors (5,376,480) rose by 0.8 per cent. The cumulative average length of stay of visitors shortened by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.1 days in the first four months. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> 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":"

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