Macau visitor arrivals totaled 2,570,428 in May, a 6.3% sequential decline but up 3.7% year-on-year, according to the latest figures from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). Overnight visitors (1,376,336) rose 14.2% year-on-year while same-day visitors (1,194,092) decreased by 6.1%, with the average length of stay of visitors increasing by 0.1 days year-on-year to 1.3 days.
Visitors from Mainland China increased by 4.4% year-on-year to 1,702,578 in May, with those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (789,488) rising by 9.9%. Mainland visitors came mainly from Guangdong Province (708,960), Hunan Province (77,676) and Fujian Province (67,590).
Visitors from the Republic of Korea (72,205) surged by 50.1% and those from Taiwan (89,118) increased by 9.5%. Visitors from Hong Kong (494,446) decreased by 1.3%.
Analyzed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by land fell 0.3% year-on-year to 1,431,672, with those arriving through the Border Gate (1,247,823) decreasing by 1.5%. But arrivals by sea rose 8.3% year-on-year to 922,353. Visitor arrivals by air increased by 14.5% year-on-year to 216,403.
For the first five months of 2017, visitor arrivals have totaled 13,185,688, up 6.3% year-on-year. Overnight visitors (6,748,888) rose 13.7% while same-day visitors (6,436,800) dropped slightly by 0.5%. The average length of stay of visitors held stable at 1.2 days.
Visitors from mainland China are up 6.9% for the year to 8,788,859 with visitation from Republic of Korea (366,734), Hong Kong (2,623,899) and Taiwan (434,305) are also up.
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