Macau visitor arrivals rose by 13.7 percent year on year to 3.13 million last month, recovering to 97.7 percent of the level in the same month of pre-pandemic 2019, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.
Month-on-month, the number of visitor arrivals was up 24 percent.
October included the mainland’s National Day “Golden Week” holiday.
Macau’s daily average of visitor arrivals stood at 101,140 in October, corresponding to about 15 percent of the local population.
Same-day visitors (1.79 million) and overnight visitors (1.34 million) rose by 23.2 percent and 3.1 percent year on year respectively.
Visitors’ average length of stay fell by 0.1 day year on year to 1.1 days, with that of overnight visitors remaining unchanged at 2.3 days.
Mainlanders accounted for 72.2 percent of all visitor arrivals last month. Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) increased by 21.8 percent to 1.15 million.
Visitors from China’s Taiwan region rose by 28 percent to 68,701 in October, while those from Hong Kong dipped by 0.2 percent to 590,930.
Foreign visitors rose by 31.2 percent to 212,284, or 6.8 percent of the total number of visitor arrivals, back to 98.8 percent of the October 2019 level. Most foreign visitors came from South Korea (47,069), the Philippines (38,924), Malaysia (15,926), and Indonesia (13,625).
US visitors increased by 20.8 percent to 13,022.
In the first 10 months of the year, visitor arrivals grew by 28.1 percent to 29.05 million, back to 87 percent of the figure in the same period in 2019.
This photo taken late last month shows tourists exploring the shops in Rua do Cunha. – Photo: Rui Pastorin
