The number of visitor arrivals in Macau in the first three quarters of the year increased by 14.5 per cent year-on-year to a total of 29,671,070, according to data released by the SAR’s Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
Same-day visitors (17,278,529) and overnight visitors (12,392,541) rose by 24.9 per cent and 2.5 per cent year-on-year, respectively.
The number of mainland Chinese visitors increased by 18.4 per cent year-on-year to 21,578,479 in the first three quarters, with those coming from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) rose by 24.0 per cent year-on-year to 10,905,564, driven by an upsurge of 56.9 per cent in the number of visitors from Zhuhai.
Meanwhile, visitors from Hong Kong SAR (5,479,564) and the Taiwan region (727,062) went up by 1.4 per cent and 16.5 per cent year-on-year, respectively.
International visitors totalled 1,885,965 in the first three quarters, up by 12.4 per cent year-on-year. Regarding the Southeast Asian markets, visitors from the Philippines (382,851), Indonesia (146,490), Malaysia (121,409) and Thailand (114,933) rose by 10.8, 14.6, 3.1 and 20.8 per cent year-on-year, respectively.
With respect to the South Asian markets, visitors from India (80,917) climbed by 5.0 per cent year-on-year. For the Northeast Asian markets, visitors from South Korea (382,494) and Japan (116,224) grew by 12.0 per cent and 25.0 per cent, respectively. As regards long-haul markets, visitors from the United States (112,330) went up by 8.7 per cent year-on-year.
Source: DSEC
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