In the wake of the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) on October 24, Macau’s visitor arrivals rose by 15.3 percent year-on-year to 3.26 million last month, while month-to-month growth reached 3.6 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.
Overnight visitors (1.59 million) and same-day visitors (1.67 million) rose by 5.1 percent and 26.9 percent respectively year-on-year. Visitors’ average length of stay remained unchanged year-on-year at 1.2 days, with that of overnight visitors rising by 0.1 day to 2.2 days and that of same-day visitors staying at 0.2 day.
Mainland Chinese visitors grew by 15.3 percent year-on-year to 2.28 million in November, slightly over one million of whom travelled under the Individual Visit Scheme, up by 19.1 percent. Mainland visitors came primarily from Guangdong (925,414) and Hunan (115,763). Visitors from Hong Kong (591,077) surged by 25.6 percent, whereas those from South Korea (67,685) and Taiwan (82,099) dropped by 6.6 percent and 2.4 percent respectively. South Korea continued to be Macau’s number-one source of foreign visitor arrivals.
