Number of overnight tourists increasing

Around 2.48 million tourists visited Macau in September, up by 2.4 percent year-on-year but down by 13.3 percent month-to-month.

According to information released by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), overnight visitors in September (1,382,026) increased by 5.4 percent year-on-year, while same-day visitors (1,104,357) decreased by 1 percent. The average length of visitors’ stays (1.3 days) held steady year-on-year, with that of overnight visitors and same-day visitors remaining unchanged at 2.2 days and 0.2 days, respectively.

Also in September, visitors from mainland China increased by 9.2 percent year-on-year to 1,721,858. The number of visitors travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme rose by 3.8 percent to 714,960. Mainland visitors came mainly from Guangdong Province (642,184), Hunan Province (85,110) and Fujian Province (72,723). Visitors from the Republic of Korea (60,940) recorded a 10.6 percent growth, while those from Hong Kong (451,307) and Taiwan (86,183) went down by 14.3 percent and 5.8 percent, respectively. Long-
haul visitors from the United States (12,269), Australia (7,186), Canada (5,044) and the United Kingdom (4,077) registered decreases.

For the first nine months of 2017, visitor arrivals totaled around 23.83 million, up by 4.2 percent year-on-year. The number of overnight visitors (12,636,728) rose by 10.8 percent while same-day visitors (11,198,311) dropped by 2.3 percent. Visitors from mainland China (16,087,866) and the Republic of Korea (644,109) registered year-on-year increases of 6.3 percent and 34.9 percent, respectively; those from Hong Kong (4,655,990) and Taiwan (802,238) decreased by 2.9 percent and 0.9 percent, respectively.