Macau recorded a total of 491,968 visitor arrivals during the mainland’s five-day Labour Day Golden Week period, which started on Saturday and ended yesterday, or a daily average of 98,393, according to immigration statistics released by the Public Security Police (PSP) in the early hours of today.
According to PSP data released previously, the daily number of visitor arrivals on the five days stood at 109,196, 133,911, 110,823, 84,740, and 53,298 respectively.
The holiday ended last night.
In December 2019, Macau’s last full pre-COVID-19 pandemic month, the daily average number of visitor arrivals stood at 99,465, according to data from the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC). Macau confirmed its first novel coronavirus case on January 22, 2020.
Macau recorded 39.4 million visitor arrivals in the whole of 2019, representing an average of 107,962 visitor arrivals daily.
Before Saturday (April 29) when 109,196 visitor arrivals were recorded, Macau’s highest daily post-pandemic number of visitor arrivals stood at 96,011, recorded on March 18 this year.
Macau recorded a total of 481,765 visitor arrivals during the six-day holiday period that started with the Ching Ming Festival on April 5 and ended on Easter Monday, or a daily average of 80,294.
Observers have noted that the daily number of visitor arrivals to Macau during this year’s Labour Day Golden Week has outperformed what local tourism officials had previously forecast for the period.
Representatives of the local tourism sector have told the local media that Macau’s tourism performance during the five-day mainland holiday period was better than they had expected.
According to local media reports, during the five-day holiday period shops and other business outlets in and around local major tourist attractions have reported revenues that returned to or were even better than the level recorded in the pre-pandemic year of 2019.
Locals and tourists walk in front of the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Ruins of St Paul’s on Sunday, the second day of the mainland’s five-day Labour Day Golden Week period, which ended yesterday. – Photo: Tony Wong
