Macau’s visitor arrivals in February 2025 decreased by 4.4 per cent year-on-year to 3,147,184 mainly due to a relatively high comparison base resulting from the Chinese New Year holiday that lasted eight days in mainland China, according to the SAR’s Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
Visitors from mainland China decreased by 6.4 per cent year-on-year to 2,291,662 in February, while visitors from the Taiwan region (67,951) rose by 14.4 per cent year-on-year, with those coming from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (579,843) dropped by 4.7 per cent.
Meanwhile, international visitors totalled 207,728 in February, up by 17.9 per cent year-on-year. Regarding the Southeast Asian markets, visitors from Indonesia (14,921), Malaysia (14,480), Thailand (11,261) and Singapore (6,762) rose by 19.6, 18.1, 25.5 and 25.2 per cent year-on-year, respectively, while visitors from the Philippines (38,847) decreased by 2.5 per cent.
Furthermore, in respect to the South Asian markets, visitors from India (4,093) remained stable year-on-year. For the Northeast Asian markets, visitors from the Republic of Korea (59,330) and Japan (14,444) grew by 41.8 and 26.2 per cent, respectively.
Additionally, visitors from the United States (10,561) went up by 6.6 per cent year-on-year.
Source: DSEC
Photo: Joshua J. Cotton
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