Macau recorded 3.09 million visitor arrivals last month, a year-on-year growth of 18.9 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.
Same-day visitors (1.75 million) and overnight visitors (1.33 million) rose by 30.1 percent and 6.9 percent year on year respectively.
On average, overnight visitors stayed for 2.3 days, unchanged from a year earlier.
Mainland Chinese visitors rose by 22.4 percent to 2.12 million in April. Foreign visitors grew by 10.4 percent to 230,014.
Most foreign visitors came from the Philippines (43,097), South Korea (37,215) and Thailand (20,463).
Some 82.1 percent of all visitor arrivals arrived by land.
In the first four months of the year, the number of visitor arrivals rose by 12.9 percent to 12.95 million.
Visitors walk along the street near Macau’s UNESCO World Heritage-listed Ruins of St. Paul’s late last month. – Photo: Rui Pastorin
