The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) said in a statement yesterday that according to its provisional data, Macau recorded 1.34 million foreign visitors in the first seven months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 122.0 percent, returning to 68.1 percent of the level recorded in the same period of pre-pandemic 2019.
An MGTO statement last week said that according to its provisional data, Macau recorded 19.74 million visitor arrivals in the first seven months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 37.1 percent, returning to 82.9 percent of the figure in the same period of 2019.
Last week’s statement also said that Macau recorded 3.02 million visitor arrivals last month, or a daily average of 97,683, a year-on-year increase of 9.7 percent, returning to 85.8 percent of the level recorded in the same period of 2019.
The Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) is scheduled to announce on Tuesday next week the official data on visitor arrivals recorded last month and during the first seven months of this year.
Yesterday’s MGTO statement also quoted DSEC data on visitor arrivals recorded during the first half of this year, which was announced on July 19.
According to the DSEC data announced last month, Macau recorded 16.72 million visitor arrivals in the first half of this year, a year-on-year growth of 43.6 percent, reaching 82.4 percent of the figure in the same period of 2019.
The number of foreign visitors in the first six months of this year leapt by 146.3 percent year on year to 1.16 million, returning to 67.2 percent of the level recorded in the same period of 2019, according to last month’s DSEC data.
Moreover, yesterday’s MGTO statement also said that according to its provisional data, Macau recorded 1.48 million visitor arrivals between August 1 and 12, representing a daily average of about 124,000, adding that Saturday last week saw the highest single-day number of 154,542 during the 12-day period.
Tourists throng Rua de S. Paulo last week, a narrow pedestrian-only street near the UNESCO World Heritage-listed St. Paul’s Ruins landmark. – Photo: Rui Pastorin
