September arrivals down 11% from 2021

Total visitor arrivals for September this year amounted to 557,842. The figure is a drop of 11.3% year-on-year, the Statistics and Census Service notes.

The same statistics release has noted September figures show a significant recovery (+68.3%) when compared to August. August figures were affected by the government’s so-called stabilization period during the first seven days of the June 18 Covid-19 outbreak, with Macau only resuming its “normal” prevention status from August 8.

In September, the number of overnight visitors (280,270) was almost the same as the same-day visitors (277,572) with the first remaining stable (-0.3%) while the second suffered a significant drop (-20.3%) year-on-year.

Visitors’ average length of stay increased slightly by 0.2 days year-on-year to 1.8 days.

This mostly accounts for overnight visitor stays (3.5 days) which increased 0.2 days, while the same-day visitors (0.2 days) increased marginally 0.1 days.

Mainland visitors fell 13.8% year-on-year to 502,668, with 188,148 visitors traveling under the Individual Visit Scheme. Visitors from the nine cities in the Greater Bay Area totaled 295,663, with 39.6% coming from the neighboring city of Zhuhai.

Even with border restrictions in force, 46,179 visitors (8.3%) arrived from Hong Kong and 6,615 (1.2%) from Taiwan.

In the first three quarters of this year, visitor arrivals fell 24.2% year-on-year to 4,364,105; same-day visitors (2,619,343) and overnight visitors (1,744,762) fell 8.2% and 39.9% respectively.