The number of visitors to Macau last month surged significantly, information from the Statistics and Census Service has indicated.
Arrivals in February totaled 1,593,743, a surge of 143.1% year-on-year and also an increase month-on-month of 14% compared with January this year.
Although both the overnight visitors (843,402) and same-day visitors (750,341) soared respectively by 201.8% and 99.5% year-on-year, the average length of stay has shortened by 0.2-day year-on-year to 1.3 days.
Overnight visitors stayed for a shorter period (2.2 days), a drop of 1.1 days, while same-day visitors stayed longer (0.3 days) – a rise of 0.2 days.
In the first two months of this year, arrivals expanded by 121.6% year-on-year to 2,991,491; overnight visitors (1,659,601) and same-day visitors (1,331,890) jumped by 217% and 61.2% respectively. The average length of stay of visitors remained steady year-on-year at 1.4 days, with that of overnight visitors (2.4 days) decreasing by 0.9 days, whereas that of same-day visitors (0.3 days) rose 0.2 days.
Mainland visitors continue to top the visitors’ source list, growing 64.8% year-on-year to 1,003,999, with those traveling under the Individual Visit Scheme (634,538) surging 222.9%.
Among these, the visitors from the nine cities in the Greater Bay Area increased 43.7% year-on-year to 552,094, 27.9% of whom came from Zhuhai (154,210) and 21% came from Guangzhou (115,876). Visitors from Hong Kong (523,271) and Taiwan (22,411) skyrocketed by 1,163.7% and 372.6% year-on-year respectively as a consequence of the border reopening.
Most visitors continue to arrive via land borders, with 50.1% arriving through the checkpoint of Border Gate (642,521), 32.5% coming via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (416,899), and 12.5% via the Hengqin port (160,889). In addition, arrivals by sea and by air leaped by 1,107.4% and 121.6% year-on-year to 199,523 and 112,160 respectively.
