{"id":777033582,"date":"2025-10-24T08:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777033582"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:52:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:52:51","slug":"macau-visitors-for-january-september-up-14-5-year-on-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitors-for-january-september-up-14-5-year-on-year","title":{"rendered":"Macau visitors for January-September up 14.5% year-on-year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Arrivals reached 2.7 million in September, up 9.8 per cent compared to September 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The <strong>Statistics and Census Service of Macau (DSEC)<\/strong> has reported that the number of visitor arrivals to Macau reached 29,671,070 in the first three quarters of 2025, up by 14.5 per cent year-on-year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Same-day visitors<\/strong> (17,278,529) and <strong>overnight visitors<\/strong> (12,392,541) rose by 24.9 per cent and 2.5 per cent year-on-year, respectively. The cumulative 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 <strong>average duration<\/strong> of stay for same-day visitors (0.2 day) and overnight visitors (2.3 days) remained unchanged year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitors from the Chinese <strong>mainland<\/strong> increased by 18.4 per cent year-on-year to 21,578,479, with those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (11,505,928) rising by 24.3 per cent.\u00a0Some 1,442,328 travelled under the \u201cone trip per week measure\u201d, 444,326 under the \u201cmultiple-entry measure\u201d and 118,120 under the \u201ctourist group multi-entry measure\u201d. Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area rose by 24 per cent to 10,905,564. Visitors from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (5,479,564) and the Taiwan region (727,062) were up by 1.4 per cent and 16.5 per cent respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>International visitors<\/strong> totalled 1,885,965, up by 12.4 per cent. Among Southeast Asian markets, visitors from the Philippines (382,851), Indonesia (146,490), Malaysia (121,409) and Thailand (114,933) rose by 10.8 per cent, 14.6 per cent, 3.1 per cent and 20.8 per cent respectively. Visitors from India (80,917) climbed by 5 per cent year-on-year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Northeast Asian markets, visitors from the Republic of Korea (382,494) and Japan (116,224) grew by 12 per cent and 25 per cent respectively. Visitors from the USA (112,330) were up by 8.7 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Analysed by <strong>checkpoint<\/strong>, the number of visitor arrivals by land (24,534,804; 82.7 per cent of total) grew by 19.5 per cent and those arriving through the checkpoint of Border Gate and the Hengqin port by 23.1 per cent and 40 per cent respectively. Arrivals by sea (2,914,403; 9.8 per cent) and by air (2,221,863; 7.5 per cent) dropped by 5.4 per cent and 3.5 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <strong>September 2025<\/strong>, the number of visitor arrivals <strong>rose by 9.8 per cent year-on-year<\/strong> to 2,775,130; same-day visitors (1,561,568) grew by 19.4 per cent while overnight visitors (1,213,562) dropped by 0.5 per cent. The average length of stay of visitors shortened by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.2 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ)<\/strong>\u00a0reported that Macau\u2019s gross gaming revenue (GGR) was <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-rises-6-year-over-year-in-september\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-rises-6-year-over-year-in-september\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MOP18.3bn (US$2.27bn) in September<\/a>. That\u2019s an increase of 6 per cent in year-on-year terms, but 17.5 per cent behind August, when GGR reached MOP22.16bn (US$2.77bn).\u00a0Casino operations in September were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-casinos-resume-operations-after-33-hours-of-closure-due-to-super-typhoon-ragasa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disrupted by Super Typhoon Ragasa<\/a>, which led to a government-mandated closure of casinos for 33 hours.<\/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\/12\/16388858421637591606macau-ggr-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/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-ggr-rises-6-year-over-year-in-september'>Macau GGR rises 6% year-over-year in September<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrivals reached 2.7 million in September, up 9.8 per cent compared to September 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777033586,"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 reported a 14.5% year-on-year increase in visitor arrivals for the first three quarters of 2025, reaching 29.67 million, primarily driven by same-day visitors and mainland Chinese tourists. September 2025 Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) rose 6% year-on-year to MOP18.3bn, though it declined 17.5% from August due to operational disruptions from Super Typhoon Ragasa, which mandated a 33-hour casino closure.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service of Macau (DSEC), Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ)","focusai_location":"Macau, Chinese mainland, Pearl River Delta cities, Greater Bay Area, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Taiwan region, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Republic of Korea, Japan, USA","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Recovery Trajectory?","query":"What is the projected GGR recovery trajectory for Macau in Q4 2025, considering the Q3 typhoon impact and evolving visitor demographics?"},{"label":"Operational Risk Mitigation?","query":"How are integrated resort operators in Macau enhancing operational resilience and business continuity plans to mitigate future force majeure events, such as typhoons?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338,24628,158],"tags":[24954,24955,23906],"class_list":["post-777033582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","category-highlight-of-the-week","category-slider-home","tag-gaming-inspection-and-coordination-bureau-dicj","tag-gross-gaming-revenue-ggr","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033582","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777033582"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777033602,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033582\/revisions\/777033602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777033586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777033582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777033582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777033582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}