Macau welcomed 15.7 million overnight visitors last year, an increase of 9.8 percent year-on-year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.
Overnight visitors accounted for 50.7 percent of last year’s 30.95 million visitor arrivals.
On average, overnight visitors stayed 2.1 days.
The number of same-day visitors dropped 7.1 percent to 15.25 million in 2016.
The total number of visitor arrivals rose 0.8 percent year-on-year. Last year recorded Macau’s second-highest number of annual visitor arrivals, after the record number of 31.5 million in 2014.
Visitors’ average length of stay rose 0.1 day to 1.2 days. Mainlanders, Hongkongers and Taiwanese accounted for 66.1 percent, 20.7 percent and 3.5 percent, or 90.3 percent in total, of all visitor arrivals last year. While the number of visitors from the mainland and Taiwan rose 0.2 percent and 8.8 percent respectively, the number of Hong Kong visitors fell 1.8 percent year-on-year.
This photo taken earlier this month shows a large crowd of tourists in Rua do Cunha in Taipa Village.
Photo: Monica Leong
