The record number of visitors rose by 26.6 percent from last year’s CNY 7-day holiday period. Mainlanders accounted for 74.1 percent of the total number of visitor arrivals. Their number increased by 25.6 percent.
Most visitors arrived via the Barrier Gate (601,185) and Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (191,799) checkpoints. A total of 84,757 arrived via the local airport.
The huge number of visitors during the CNY holidays forced the police to implement crowd control measures on several occasions in the city centre, namely around the Ruins of St. Paul’s landmark and in the Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro neighbourhood.
Visitors throng the area in front of the St. Paul’s Ruins on Sunday, the last day of the mainland’s “Golden Week” Chinese New Year holiday. Photo: Iong Tat Choi
