Macau’s visitor arrivals fell by 5.6 percent month-on-month but rose 53.5 percent year-on-year to 655,505 in February, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.
Same-day visitors (376,033) and overnight visitors (279,472) increased by 106.8 percent and 13.9 percent year-on-year respectively.
Visitors’ average length of stay shrank by 0.4 day year-on-year to 1.5 days. On average, overnight visitors stayed for 3.3 days, 0.1 day more than a year earlier.
Mainlanders accounted for 92.9 percent of all visitor arrivals last month, 63 percent of whom came from the nine mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area (GBA). February also recorded 41,409 visitors from Hong Kong and 4,742 from Taiwan.
Foreign tourists have been barred from Macau since March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In February, 50,607 visitors arrived by air.
In the first two months, the number of visitor arrivals grew by 37.2 percent year-on-year to 1.3 million.
