Macau’s number of visitor arrivals last month rose 966.7 percent to 789,407 year on year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.
The figure increased 49.4 percent month on month.
Overnight visitors increased 1,634.5 percent year on year to 412,735 in July, when same-day visitors rose 650.2 percent to 376,672 year on year.
The average length of stay of overnight visitors fell by 1.3 days to 3.4 days. Overnight visitors accounted for 52.3 percent of all visitor arrivals.
Mainlanders accounted for 91.7 percent of all visitor arrivals last month. Some 54.1 percent of Macau’s visitor arrivals in July were from the Greater Bay Area (GBA) which includes nine cities in Guangdong province.
In the first seven months of the year, the number of visitor arrivals rose 41.1 percent to 4.7 million.
