Macau’s visitor arrivals increased by 8.5 percent year-on-year to 32.181 million in the first nine months of the year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced in a statement today.
Same-day visitors (19.783 million) rose by 14.5 percent year-on-year, while overnight visitors (12.397 million) grew by 0.04 percent.
Visitors’ average length of stay shortened by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.0 day, with that of overnight visitors (2.3 days, i.e., 55 hours) remaining unchanged.
Visitors from the Chinese mainland increased by 10.7 percent year-on-year to 23.88 million in the first three quarters
Visitors from China’s Taiwan region (882,023) went up by 21.3 percent year-on-year, while those from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (5.46 million) dropped by 0.3 percent.
Foreign visitors totalled 1.95 million, up by 3.4 percent year-on-year. Visitors from Thailand (154,885) rose by 34.8 percent, while those from the Philippines (363,120) and Indonesia (122,366) fell by 5.2 percent and 16.5 percent respectively. Visitors from India (91,857) grew by 13.5 percent year-on-year. Visitors from South Korea (374,590) dropped by 2.1 percent year-on-year. Visitors from the US (120,071) went up by 6.9 percent year-on-year.
In September 2026, number of visitor arrivals rose by 15.9 percent year-on-year to 3,216,535, an average of 107,217 per day.
Caption: Tourists stroll along Rua de S. Paulo in the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Historic Centre of Macao this evening. - Photo: Carl Leong
