Macau’s visitor arrivals in April increased by 18.9 per cent year-on-year to 3,092,791, according to data from the SAR’s Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
Among these visitor arrivals, the number of visitor arrivals by land (2,539,548; 82.1 per cent of total) grew by 26.2 per cent year-on-year, while those arriving through the Hengqin port showed a growth of over 50 per cent.
Meanwhile, visitor arrivals by sea (316,999; 10.2 per cent) increased by 0.5 per cent year-on-year, while those by air (236,244; 7.6 per cent) dropped by 13.4 per cent.
Regarding the source of visitors, the number of those coming from mainland China increased by 22.4 per cent year-on-year to 2,126,212 last month, while international visitors totalled 230,014, up by 10.4 per cent year-on-year.
Moreover, Southeast Asian visitors from the Philippines (43,097), Thailand (20,463) and Indonesia (19,656) rose by 20.2, 24.1 and 0.4 per cent year-on-year, respectively, while those from Malaysia (14,776) and Singapore (7,888) decreased by 17.6 and 8.7 per cent, respectively.
With respect to the South Asian markets, visitors from India (12,485) hiked by 50 per cent year-on-year. For the Northeast Asian markets, visitors from Japan (8,646) grew by 4.1 per cent, while those from the Republic of Korea (37,215) dropped by 0.7 per cent, long-haul market visitors, namely from the US (13,429) went up by 4.3 per cent year-on-year.
Source and Image: DSEC
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