Macau’s visitor arrivals rose by 30.7 percent year-on-year to 7.7 million last year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.
However, the figure represented a drop of 80.4 percent compared to 2019 when Macau recorded 39.4 million visitor arrivals, the highest on record. In 2019, visitor arrivals increased by 10.1 percent year-on-year. The COVID-19 pandemic began to affect Macau’s tourism industry in January 2020.
In 2020, visitor arrivals fell by 85.0 percent year-on-year to 5.89 million.
Same-day visitors accounted for 52.0 percent of the total number of visitor arrivals last year.
Mainlanders accounted for 91.4 percent of all visitor arrivals last year. Hong Kong and Taiwan residents accounted for 7.6 percent and nearly 1 percent of the total number of visitor arrivals in 2021, respectively.
Foreign nationals without the right of abode in Macau have been barred from entering the special administrative region since March 2020.
Last month, Macau recorded 820,870 visitor arrivals, a month-on-month growth of 2.4 percent and year-on-year increase of 24.5 percent.
