Macau’s visitor arrivals rose by 53.7 percent month-on-month to 629,085 in September, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.
A DSEC statement attributed the increase to the easing of entry and exit requirements that were in place during most of the month.
Year-on-year, last month’s number of visitor arrivals increased by 40.1 percent.
Same-day visitors (348,058) and overnight visitors (281,027) grew by 20.2 percent and 76.1 percent year-on-year respectively.
Visitors’ average length of stay went up by 0.6 day year-on-year to 1.6 days. Overnight visitors’ average length of stay increased by 0.6 day to 3.3 days.
Mainlanders accounted for 92.6 percent of all visitors last month, which also recorded 41,156 visitors from Hong Kong and 4,813 from Taiwan.
Foreign nationals without the right of abode in Macau have been barred from entry since March last year.
In the first nine months, the number of visitor arrivals grew by 43.2 percent year-on-year to 5.75 million.
