Macau’s visitor arrivals dropped 36.6 percent month on month and 28.0 percent year on year to 380,671 in June, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said in a statement yesterday.
The bureau attributed the decline to tightened cross-border measures between Zhuhai and Macau as a number of local COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Macau in June.
Same-day visitors (199,881) and overnight visitors (180,790) dropped 36.2 percent at 15.9 percent year on year respectively.
Overnight visitors’ average length of stay fell by 0.7 day to 2.2 days.
Mainlanders accounted for 88.4 percent of all visitor arrivals in June, which also recorded 38,895 visitors from Hong Kong and 5,148 from Taiwan. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, foreign visitors have been barred from Macau since March 2020.
Only 4,546 visitors arrived by air.
In the first half of the year, visitor arrivals declined 11.8 percent year on year to 3.46 million.
Due to the government’s “stay-at-home” order in response to the COVID-19 threat, only a few pedestrians walk in Rua da Felicidade yesterday. Macau’s “Street of Bliss” was usually crowded with tourists before the novel coronavirus pandemic started to affect Macau in early 2020. Photo: Yuki Lei
