Visitor arrivals to Macau rose 11% year-on-year and 9.7% sequentially in April according to the latest statistics from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
With the added bonus of an Easter holiday that had fallen in March in 2016, visitation from mainland China increased by 7.1% year-on-year to 1,768,603 in April, with those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme rising by 18.5% to 823,373. Mainland visitors came mainly from Guangdong Province (725,648) and Hunan Province (87,911).
Visitors from the Republic of Korea (64,924) and Hong Kong (608,879) surged by 48.7% and 25.3% respectively while those from the United States (17,756), Australia (10,328), Canada (6,973) and the United Kingdom (6,710) registered slight increases.
It was also good news in regards to length of stay which rose by 0.1 days on average to 1.2 days thanks to a 17.7% rise in overnight visitors to 1,441,162.
Analyzed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by land increased by 7.6% year-on-year to 1,520,801, with those arriving through the Border Gate (1,320,374) rising 6.1%. Visitor arrivals by sea rose 17.2% year-on-year to 1,010,695.
In the first four months of 2017, visitor arrivals totaled 10,615,260, up 6.9% year-on-year as overnight visitors (5,372,552) and same-day visitors (5,242,708) rose 13.5% and 0.9% respectively.
