Macau welcomed 25.9 million visitor arrivals in the first three quarters of this year, a year-on-year growth of 30.1 percent, recovering to 85.8 percent of the number in the same period in pre-pandemic 2019, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.
Same-day visitors (13.83 million) and overnight visitors (12.08 million) grew by 42.8 percent 18.1 percent year on year respectively.
On average, overnight visitors stayed 2.3 days, unchanged from a year earlier. Foreigners accounted to 6.4 percent of all visitor arrivals in the nine-month period.
Last month, the number of visitor arrivals rose by 9.9 percent year on year to 2.52 million.
A tourist poses in the city’s main square, Largo do Senado, last month. – Photo: Rui Pastorin
