Macau visitor arrivals rose by 9.6 percent year on year to 2.83 million last month, recovering to 97.3 percent of the level in the same month of pre-pandemic 2019, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.
In the first 11 months of the year, visitor arrivals grew by 26.2 percent to 31.088 million, back to 87.8 percent of the figure in the same period in 2019, the statement said.
Same-day visitors (17.17 million) and overnight visitors (14.71 million) rose by 37.4 percent and 15.2 percent year on year respectively.
Visitors’ average length of stay fell by 0.1 day year on year to 1.2 days, with that of overnight visitors remaining unchanged at 2.3 days.
The number of mainland visitors increased by 11 percent year on year to 1.9 million last month, while the number of visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) increased by 13.7 percent year on year to 0.96 million.
Analysed by checkpoints, the number of visitor arrivals by land grew by 10.3 percent year-on-year to 2,268,471 in November, among whom 48.5 percent arrived through the Border Gate checkpoint (1,101,007), 33.1 percent came via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (751,316) and 14.1 percent via the Macau-Hengqin checkpoint (319,928). Meanwhile, visitor arrivals by ferry (312,614) and by air (250,956) increased by 0.4 percent and 16.5 percent year-on-year respectively.
Visitors from China’s Taiwan region rose by 29.3 percent to 71,280 in November, while those from Hong Kong dipped by 0.8 percent to 554,053 last month.
Foreign visitors rose by 20.9 percent to 241,057, 7 percent up from the November 2019 level. Most foreign visitors came from South Korea (48,594), the Philippines (48,641), Malaysia (20,716), and the US (16,218).
This photo taken last month shows locals and tourists at the annual Macau Food Festival in Sai Van Lake Square. – Photo: Ginnie Liang
