Macau recorded 3.29 million visitor arrivals last month, a year-on-year growth of 106.7 percent, recovering to 92.9 percent of the level in the same month of pre-pandemic 2019, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.
Month on month, the figure was up by 15.1 percent.
Same-day visitors (1.86 million) and overnight visitors (1.42 million) rose by 148.9 percent and 69.1 percent year on year respectively.
Visitors’ average length of stay fell by 0.2 day to 1.1 days; the decrease was mainly caused by a slight increase in the proportion of same-day visitors in the total number of visitors, the bureau said. Overnight visitors’ average length of stay (2.2 days) and same-day visitors (0.3 day) remained unchanged.
Mainlanders (2,449,243) and Hongkongers (608,739) accounted for 74.3 percent and 18.4 percent of all visitor arrivals respectively.
Foreign visitors totalled 176,192 in February, or 5.3 percent of the total number of visitor arrivals, recovering to 71.6 percent of the figure in the same month of pre-pandemic 2019.
Macau confirmed its first COVID-19 case in January 2020. The pandemic severely affected the local tourism industry for three years.
In the first two months, visitor arrivals rose by 105.8 percent year on year to 6.15 million.
Tourists crowd the narrow street coming from the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Ruins of St. Paul’s landmark last month. – Photo: Rui Pastorin
