Macau's visitor arrivals surged by 28,176.9 percent year-on-year to 2.759 million last month, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced today.
The bureau said in a statement the huge growth was "mainly due to an increase in visitors as well as a relatively low base of comparison in July last year."
In July last year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Macau's visitor arrivals fell by 98.8 percent year-on-year to 9,759.
Month-on-month, visitor arrivals rose by 24.9 percent last month.
In July, overnight visitors (1.43 million) and same-day visitors (1.32 million) rose by 55,607.4 percent and 18,270.8 percent year-on-year respectively.
However, visitors' average length of stay dropped by 7.0 days year-on-year to 1.3 days. The duration of overnight visitor's stay (2.3 days) dropped by 23.1 days year-on-year.
Mainland Chinese accounted for 69.2 percent of all visitor arrivals last month, while Hongkongers made up 23.9 percent of the total. Some 31.3 percent of all visitor arrivals came from the Greater Bay Area's (GBA) nine cities in Guangdong province.
A total of 223,0855 visitors arrived by air, or 8.0 percent of the total number of visitor arrivals last month.
In the first seven months, the number of visitor arrivals grew by 314.6 percent year-on-year to 14.4 million.
Tourists walking in front of S. Domingos Church near Macau's main square, Largo do Senado, today. – Photo: Carl Leong
