Tourism | Tour groups decline 20 percent in September

Visitors to Macau on package tours decreased by 20 percent year-on-year to 596,000 in September 2016, according to a statement recently released by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
In that period, visitors from mainland China (482,000) and Taiwan (33,000) dropped by 23 percent and 11.1 percent year-on-year respectively, while those from South Korea (25,000) recorded an increase of 44.9 percent.
For the first three quarters of 2016, visitors on package tours totaled around 5.42 million, down by 27.8 percent compared with the same period last year.
Meanwhile, outbound residents using the services of travel agencies totaled 93,000 in September 2016, down by 16.1 percent year-
on-year. The number of residents traveling on package tours dropped by 26.8 percent year-
on-year to fall to 32,000.
The decline was led by residents traveling to mainland China on package tours (23,000), which fell by 36.8 percent. On the other hand, it was partially offset by a more than 220 percent soar in the number traveling on package tours to South Korea (3,300).
As for the first three quarters of 2016, the number of residents using travel agencies numbered 910,000, down by 17.2 percent year-
on-year.

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