Macau welcomed a total of 29,671,070 visitor arrivals for the first three quarters of 2025 combined, representing a 14.5% increase compared with the same period last year according to information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). The total number of arrivals in 2024 was 34,928,650.
The growth in arrivals through the first nine months of this year included a 24.9% increase in same-day visitors to 17,278,529 and a 2.5% increase in overnight visitors to 12,392,541 – resulting in the cumulative average length of stay of visitors falling by 0.1 days year-on-year to 1.1 days. The average duration of stay for same-day visitors was 0.2 days and for overnight visitors 2.3 days, the DSEC explained.
Mainland visitors again dominated arrivals, rising 18.4% year-on-year to 21,578,479 in the first three quarters. Those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme grew by 24.3% to 11,505,928 while another 1,442,328 travelled under the “one trip per week measure”, 444,326 under the “multiple-entry measure” and 118,120 under the “tourist group multi-entry measure”.
Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area rose by 24.0% year-on-year to 10,905,564, driven by an upsurge of 56.9% in the number of visitors from Zhuhai. Visitors from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region was slightly up to 5,479,564 and from Taiwan up 16.5% to 727,062.
International visitors totaled 1,885,965 in the first three quarters, up by 12.4% year-on-year. Of those, the Philippines accounted for 382,851, Indonesia 146,490, Malaysia 121,409 and Thailand 114,933.
For the Northeast Asian markets, visitors from the Republic of Korea grew 12.0% to 382,494 and from Japan by 25.0% to 116,224.
The nine-month total included a 9.8% year-on-year increase in arrivals in September to 2,775,130.
