Macau recorded an average 21,242 visitor arrivals per day from December 3 to January 3, with New Year’s Eve setting the highest daily record over the past eleven months, the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said in a statement yesterday.
The statement underlined that MGTO has been promoting Macau as a “safe and quality” destination for travelling as the pandemic situation has basically stabilised in the mainland and Macau.
According to the statement, on New Year’s Eve, the city logged 30,747 visitor arrivals, setting the highest daily record over the last eleven months. The second highest daily record was 28,247 visitor arrivals on November 20 for the first day of the Macau Grand Prix, and the third highest was 27,755 visitor arrivals on Christmas Day.
The statement also pointed out that the average occupancy rate of local hotels exceeded 67 percent from December 31 to January 3.
In addition, the statement said that the city recorded an average daily number of 21,242 visitor arrivals between December 31 and January 3, an increase of 13 percent on average daily visitor arrivals from October, with an average of 19,629 mainland visitors per day.
The average daily number of visitor arrivals from Hong Kong, Taiwan and foreign countries was 1,368, 242 and 3 between New Year’s Eve and last Sunday respectively.
Macau’s tourism industry has been hit hard by the local impact of the COVID-19 pandemic since February. Macau’s reported its first novel coronavirus case on January 22. With only a few exceptions, foreign nationals have been barred from entering Macau since March.
Pedestrians walk in front of the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Ruins of St Paul’s, one of Macau’s top tourist attractions, yesterday evening.
Photo: Iong Tat Choi
