Macau’s number of visitor arrivals last month rose a mere 1.8 percent year-on-year to 3.2 million, while the visitor arrivals in the first 10 months of the year still grew 15.3 percent to 33.4 million, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday.
In October last year, visitor arrival surged 23.2 percent year-on-year to 3.15 million. The bureau at that time attributed the two-digit growth to the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) in that month.
Tourism sector representatives told The Macau Post Daily yesterday that the wave of violence by radical protesters in Hong Kong over the past few months was gradually having an adverse impact on the local tourism industry.
