{"id":777039520,"date":"2026-03-23T08:05:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777039520"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:15:11","slug":"macau-visitors-for-february-up-32-6-year-on-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitors-for-february-up-32-6-year-on-year","title":{"rendered":"Macau visitors for February up 32.6% year-on-year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Visitor arrivals reached 4.17 million, according to the Statistics and Census Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The <strong>Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)<\/strong> has reported that the number of visitor arrivals to Macau increased by 32.6 per cent year-on-year to <strong>4,172,940 in February <\/strong>2026, driven by the <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-surpasses-1-5-million-visitors-during-chinese-new-year-holiday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lunar New Year holidays<\/a>. Same-day visitors (2,676,431) and overnight visitors (1,496,509) rose by 41.8 per cent and 18.8 per cent year-on-year, respectively. The average length of stay for visitors fell 0.2 day year-on-year to 0.9 day, with that for overnight visitors decreasing by 0.1 day to 2.1 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitors from the Chinese mainland increased by 43.6 per cent year-on-year to 3,291,164, with those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (2,032,456) up by 52.7 per cent. Visitors from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (591,300) and Taiwan region (89,628) rose by 2 per cent and 31.9 per cent year-on-year, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>International visitors<\/strong> totalled 200,848, down by 3.3 per cent. Visitors from the Philippines (45,195) grew by 16.3 per cent, while those from Indonesia (11,587) and Thailand (9,973) dropped by 22.3 per cent and 11.4 per cent, respectively. Visitors from India (5,831) rose by 42.5 per cent, those from the Republic of Korea (55,994) fell by 5.6 per cent, and visitors from the USA (11,142) rose by 5.5 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the <strong>first two months of 2026<\/strong>, the number of visitor arrivals rose by 15.1 per cent year-on-year to 7,820,268. Same-day visitors (4,931,130) and overnight visitors (2,889,138) grew by 22 per cent and 5 per cent, respectively. The number of international visitors totalled 479,301, up by 6.8 per cent year-on-year.<\/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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-rises-4-5-year-over-year-in-february\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-rises-4-5-year-over-year-in-february\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MOP20.63bn (US$2.57bn)\u00a0in February<\/a>. That\u2019s an increase of 4.5 per cent in year-on-year terms, but 8.9 per cent down from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-rises-24-year-over-year-in-january\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">January<\/a> (MOP22.63bn). Cumulatively, Macau\u2019s GGR for the two months of 2026 was\u00a0<strong>MOP43.26bn (US$5.38bn)<\/strong>, up 13.9 per cent year-on-year but still 14 per cent below pre-pandemic levels (US$6.26bn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/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\/16394051811637763332Macau-expects-25000-visitors-per-day-during-October-Golden-Week-300x200.jpg\" 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-4-5-year-over-year-in-february'>Macau GGR rises 4.5% year-over-year in February<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitor arrivals reached 4.17 million, according to the Statistics and Census Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":25802,"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's visitor arrivals surged by 32.6% year-on-year in February 2026, reaching 4.17 million, primarily driven by Lunar New Year holidays and strong mainland Chinese visitation. Concurrently, Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) for February increased by 4.5% year-on-year to MOP20.63 billion, though it saw an 8.9% month-on-month decline from January.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service, Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau","focusai_location":"Macau, Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Republic of Korea, USA","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR vs. Visitor Trends","query":"What specific factors contributed to the GGR's month-on-month decline in February despite a significant year-on-year increase in visitor arrivals and how does this impact per-visitor spend metrics?"},{"label":"International Visitor Strategy","query":"Given the decline in international visitors, what strategic initiatives are Macau's integrated resorts and the government implementing to diversify source markets and enhance global appeal beyond traditional regional tourism?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338,24628],"tags":[20582,23908,23906],"class_list":["post-777039520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","category-highlight-of-the-week","tag-dicj","tag-gaming-regulation","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777039520","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=777039520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777039520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777039541,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777039520\/revisions\/777039541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777039520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777039520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777039520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}