Macau recorded 794,819 visitor arrivals last month, a year-on-year increase of 7,098 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.
Due to the implementation of drastically tightened COVID-19 control and prevention measures at the end of March last year, Macau recorded only 11,041 visitor arrivals in April 2020.
In April last year, Macau’s visitor arrivals tumbled by 99.7 percent year-on-year and 94.8 percent month-to-month.
Macau confirmed its first COVID-19 case on January 22 last year.
Month-to-month visitor arrivals rose 5.3 percent last month.
In April, overnight visitors and same-day visitors amounted to 450,579 and 344,240 respectively.
Visitors’ average length of stay fell by 5.7 days year-on-year to 1.6 days, with that of overnight visitors (2.9 days) dropping by 18.2 days due to the government’s adjustments in COVID-19 prevention measures.
Last month’s number of mainland visitors grew by 6,861 percent year-on-year to 730,934, accounting for 91.9 percent of the total number of visitor arrivals.
In April, Macau recorded 56,760 Hong Kong visitors and 7,091 Taiwan visitors.
Some 89.2 percent of all visitors arrived by land via the various Macau-Zhuhai border checkpoints. Visitor arrivals by air and by sea totalled 62,288 and 23,574 respectively.
Ferry links between Macau and Hong Kong have been suspended since early February last year. However, Macau-Guangdong ferry routes have been gradually resumed. Flights at the local airport have been reduced since early last year.
Foreign nationals without a local residence permit have been barred from entering Macau since March last year.
In the first four months of the year, the number of visitor arrivals dropped by 21.6 percent year-on-year to 2.53 million.
Tourists, most of them from the mainland, throng Rua de S. Paulo on May 3. Photo: Iong Tat Choi
