Statistics | Tourism: Visitor spending decreased 17.2 percent in 2015

Customers look at watches for sale in a store in Macau

For the entire year of 2015, visitor spending excluding gaming decreased 17.2 percent from MOP61.75 billion in 2014 to MOP51.15 billion last year, according to the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). The agency says that this represents the first annual decline since the data was first released in 2010.
Non-gaming visitor spending of overnight visitors (MOP40.17 billion) dropped 21.1 percent while that of same-day visitors (MOP10.96 billion) increased by 0.9 percent over the course of the year.
Visitor spending excluding gaming fell by 7.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015 when compared with the same period in 2014, amounting to MOP13.05 billion. At the same time, fourth-quarter spending rose by 4.7 percent from MOP12.47 billion in the third quarter of 2015.
The fourth quarter of 2015 saw a per capita spending increase of 7.8 percent over the third quarter, but a 5.5-percent year-on-year decline. Mainland visitors spent 4.9 percent less per capita than they did during the same period in 2014. Likewise, per capita spending of visitors from Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, the U.S. and the U.K. registered annual decreases, while those from Australia increased marginally by 1 percent year-on-year.
Analyzed by consumption structure, visitors spent mainly on shopping (46 percent), accommodation (25.5 percent) and food & beverage (20.4 percent) in the last quarter of 2015. The consumption structure was broadly similar to that registered during the third quarter.
Visitor satisfaction toward various services declined considerably during the fourth quarter of 2015 when compared with the previous one. The proportion of visitors satisfied with the services of hotels (87.9 percent), gaming establishments (83 percent) and retail shops (81.7 percent) dropped by 0.9, 1.2 and 3.4 percentage points, respectively.
Those satisfied with travel agency services (78.5 percent) and public transport services (67.8 percent) both fell substantially by 7.5 and 4.7 percentage points, respectively.