Macau’s visitor arrivals in the first quarter of 2026 increased by 13.7 per cent year-on-year to 11,213,904.
The figure comprised 7,007,320 same-day visitors and 4,206,584 overnight visitors, marking increases of 20.3 and 4.1 per cent year-on-year, respectively, according to the city’s Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
Meanwhile, the average length of stay of visitors shortened by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.0 day, with that of overnight visitors (2.2 days) remaining unchanged.
Based on the source of visitors, those coming from mainland China increased by 16.4 per cent year-on-year to 8,388,921 in the first quarter, while visitors from Hong Kong SAR (1,783,763) and Taiwan region (285,464) rose by 1.8 per cent and 29.1 per cent year-on-year, respectively.
International visitors totalled 755,756 in the first quarter, up by 10.7 per cent year-on-year, while the Southeast Asian visitors from the Philippines (131,749), Thailand (59,811) and Malaysia (48,903) went up by 4.1, 70.5 and 3.8 per cent year-on-year, respectively, with the number of those coming from Indonesia (46,262) decreasing by 13.8 per cent.
For the South Asian markets, visitors from India (27,034) increased by 41.3 per cent year-on-year.
In addition, visitors from the Republic of Korea (184,938) in Northeast Asia and long-haul visitors from the USA (39,340) both recorded a rise of 7.4 per cent year-on-year. More details on this report can be found via this link. – GNM
Source: DSEC
Photo: John Mukiibi Elijah
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