Macau’s number of visitor arrivals rose by 9.3 percent month-on-month to 636,351 in November, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced in a statement yesterday.
The daily average of visitor arrivals stood at 21,212 last month.
Overnight visitors and same-day visitors totalled 323,794 and 312,557 respectively. The average length of overnight visitors’ stay rose by 0.7 day to 3.1 days.
Mainlanders accounted for 92.5 percent of all visitor arrivals. Some 51.5 percent of all mainland visitors came from the nine Greater Bay Area (GBA) cities in Guangdong province. The number of visitors from Hong Kong and Taiwan amounted to 43,178 and 4,589 respectively.
Nearly 94 percent of all visitors arrived by land. Visitor arrivals by air and sea stood at 25,206 and 13,100 respectively.
Last month’s number of visitor arrivals plummeted by 78.1 percent year-on-year.
In the first 11 months of the year the number of visitor arrivals declined by 85.6 percent year-on-year to 5.23 million.
In 2019, Macau recorded 39.4 million visitor arrivals, a year-on-year growth of 10.1 percent.
