The number of visitor arrivals into Macau in June fell by 28.0% year-on-year and 36.6% month-on-month to just 380,671 in June, declining dramatically towards the end of the month due to tightened border control measures amid the SAR’s ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.
According to information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) the number of same-day visitors fell 36.2% year-on-year to 199,881 and overnight visitors by 15.9% to 180,790, while the average length of stay of those who did visit dropped by 0.1 days year-on-year to 1.1 days.
Most visitors – 336,488 of them – were from mainland China of which 134,981 travelled under the Individual Visit Scheme. Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area totaled 247,905, with 47.3% of those from Zhuhai. There were also 38,895 visitors from Hong Kong and 5,148 from Taiwan.
By source of arrival, 360,601 arrived by land in June with 75.6% of the, entering Macau via the border gate.
For the first six months of 2022 combined, visitor arrivals fell by 11.8% year-on-year to 3,465,107. Overnight visitors (1,284,281) fell by 37.6% year-on-year, while same-day visitors (2,180,826) increased by 16.7%.
