Macau’s visitor arrivals rose by 480.5 percent year on year to 2.2 million last month, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.
The figure fell by 0.2 percent month on month.
June’s daily average of visitor arrivals stood at 73,655.
Last month’s overnight visitors (1.16 million) and same-day visitors (1.04 million) increased by 543.7 percent and 423.3 percent year on year respectively.
Visitors’ average length of stay rose by 0.2 day year on year to 1.3 days, up by 0.2 day year on year. Overnight visitors’ length of stay remained unchanged at 2.2 days.
Mainlanders (1.44 million), Hongkongers (601,663) and Taiwanese (42,964) accounted for 65.4 percent, 27.2 percent and 1.9 percent of all visitor arrivals respectively. Foreign nationals accounted for only around 5.5 percent of the total number of visitor arrivals last month.
In the first half of the year, visitor arrivals grew by 236.1 percent to 11.64 million.
