Macau’s visitor arrivals last year increased by 23.8 per cent year-on-year to 34,928,650, according to Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
Same-day visitors (18,884,882) and overnight visitors (16,043,768) grew by 35 and 12.8 per cent year-on-year, respectively. Meanwhile, in view of the growth in the proportion of same-day visitors, the average length of stay of visitors (1.2 days) shortened by 0.1 day year-on-year in 2024, with that of overnight visitors remaining unchanged at 2.3 days.
The number of visitors from mainland China increased by 28.6 per cent year-on-year to 24,491,424 in 2024; those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (12,281,055) grew by 15.5 per cent, whereas those travelling under the “tourist group multi-entry measure” totalled 17,078.
Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area went up by 28.8 per cent to 11,985,383. Visitors from the Taiwan region (834,411) surged by 64.1 per cent year-on-year, while those from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (7,179,722) decreased by 0.2 per cent.
For the whole year of 2024, international visitors leapt by 66 per cent year-on-year to 2,423,093. Regarding the Southeast Asian markets, visitors from the Philippines (493,399), Indonesia (183,062) and Malaysia (181,941) went up by 57.1, 28.1 and 82.2 per cent year-on-year, respectively. Moreover, visitors from Thailand (134,658) and Singapore (119,201) rose by 31.8 and 29.8 per cent, respectively.
Regarding the South Asian markets, visitors from India (103,817) soared by 76.5 per cent year-on-year. With respect to the Northeast Asian markets, visitors from the Republic of Korea (492,184) and Japan (126,424) expanded by 140.6 and 68.2 per cent year-on-year, respectively.
The number of visitors from the United States (147,941) recorded an uplift of 57.7 per cent year-on-year.
By checkpoint, Macau’s visitor arrivals by land (27,769,490; 79.5 per cent of the total number), sea (4,094,585; 11.7 per cent) and air (3,064,575; 8.8 per cent) increased by 24.1, 10.7 and 43.9 per cent year-on-year, respectively, in 2024.
Meanwhile, last month’s visitor arrivals expanded by 3.3 per cent year-on-year to 3,040,337; among them, international visitors (292,202) went up by 22.5 per cent. Same-day visitors (1,712,682) grew by 15.3 per cent year-on-year while overnight visitors (1,327,655) dropped by 8.9 per cent.
Source and Image: DSEC
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