Macau’s visitor arrivals exceeded 3 million this February, the highest figure since August 2014, predominantly due to the Chinese Lunar New Year holidays, the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) said on Friday.
DSEC’s latest data indicated that visitor arrivals reached 3,070,937 in February, up by 12 percent month-to-month and up by 23.1 percent year-on- year.
Overnight visitors (1,396,068) and same-day visitors (1,674,869) went up by 13.3 percent and 32.6 percent respectively year-on-year. The average length of stay of overnight visitors held stable year-on-
year at 2.2 days, while that of same-day visitors rose by 0.1 days to 0.3 days.
Visitors from the Chinese mainland surged to 2,286,989 in February, up by 37.3 percent year- on-year. Of this number, those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme soared by 57.9 percent to 1,403,954, setting a new single-month record since the implementation of the scheme in July 2003.
Visitors from the Chinese mainland came primarily from Guangdong, Zhejiang and Shanghai. Visitors from Hong Kong (501,753) inched up by 0.1 percent year-on-year, while those from Taiwan (79,670) dropped by 8.4 percent.
Visitors from South Korea (71,633) dropped by 13.4 percent. Meanwhile, visitors from the United States, Canada and Britain registered increases, whereas those from Australia decreased.
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