Macau’s number of visitor arrivals dropped by 48.2 percent month-on-month to 409,207 last month, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.
A DSEC statement attributed the month-on-month decline to the government’s temporarily tightened entry and exit requirements in the wake of a COVID-19 Delta variant family cluster that was confirmed in early August.
However, the number of visitors arrivals rose by 80.2 percent year-on-year.
Same-day visitors (257,966) and overnight visitors (151,241) increased by 64.9 percent and 114.1 percent year-on-year respectively.
Overnight visitors’ average length of stay rose by 0.6 day to 3.9 days in August.
Mainlanders accounted for 90.3 percent of all visitor arrivals. There were 36,207 visitors from Hong Kong and 3,453 from Taiwan in August. Foreign nationals have been barred from entering Macau since March last year to protect local residents from the risk of novel coronavirus infection.
In the first eight months of this year, the number of visitor arrivals rose by 43.6 percent year-on-year to 5.12 million.
