Macau welcomed 28 million visitors in 2012, 60 percent of them from mainland China, according to figures released by the government’s Statistics and Census Service.
The increase over 2011 was modest, only 0.3% year on year, but visitation from the mainland was up 4.6% to 16.9 million people. Seven million visited from Hong Kong and 1 million from Taiwan, down 6.6 and 11.8%, respectively.
Visitation from Europe (262,000) and Oceania (129,000) grew by 4.3 and 0.9%, respectively, but the 306,000 who came from the United States represented a decrease from 2011 of 1.3%.
December visitation was down 2% to 2.49 million.
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