The Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) announced in a statement yesterday evening that Macau recorded nearly one million visitor arrivals during the seven-day National Day Golden Week holiday from Tuesday last week through Monday, representing a daily average of about 141,000, hitting the previous average daily record in the National Day Golden Week holiday in pre-pandemic 2019.
The mainland’s 2024 National Day Golden Week holiday officially lasted seven days, from October 1 to 7.
Yesterday’s statement said that according to MGTO provisional data, Macau recorded a total of 993,117 visitor arrivals during this year’s seven-day National Day Golden Week holiday, comprising 826,181 from the mainland, 117,009 from Hong Kong, 10,987 from China’s Taiwan region, and 38,940 foreign visitors.
Therefore, foreign visitors only accounted for 3.9 percent of the total visitor arrivals during the period.
According to the latest official statistics, foreign visitors made up 6.4 percent of Macau’s total visitor arrivals during the first eight months of this year.
Consequently, Macau recorded a daily average of 141,874 visitor arrivals during the 2024 National Day Golden Week holiday, an increase of 22.9 percent from last year’s one, the statement said.
Both average & single-day visitor numbers hit record
Macau has now recorded the highest average daily number of visitor arrivals for the National Day Golden Week holiday because the 141,874 was 1.9 percent higher than the previous record in the corresponding period in 2019.
Moreover, the statement said, Macau recorded around 166,000 and 174,000 visitor arrivals on Wednesday and Thursday last week, i.e., the second and third days of the National Day Golden Week holiday, both surpassing the previous single-day record of 162,000 on October 5, 2019, meaning that Macau has now also recorded the highest single-day number of visitor arrivals for the National Day Golden Week holiday.
In annual terms, Macau recorded its highest single-day number of visitor arrivals, 226,326, on February 7, 2019, i.e., the third day of Chinese New Year (CNY) of pre-pandemic 2019.
This handout photo released by the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) yesterday shows tourists crowding in Travessa da Sé, an alley leading up to the city’s Catholic Cathedral, during the National Day Golden Week holiday.
