Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) shows that the number of visitor arrivals to Macau increased by 3.4% year-on-year to 3,487,994 in May. Among those, international visitors totaled 234,150, up by just 0.8% year-on-year.
May saw the number of visitor arrivals from mainland China rise by 4.2% year-on-year to 2,541,802. Visitors from the Taiwan region totaled 93,701, up by 18.9%, while arrivals from Hong Kong amounted to 618,341, down by 0.4% year-on-year.
Among the international visitors in May, visitors from the Philippines constituted the largest group, totaling 50,462, though the figure dropped by 11.5% year-on-year. This was followed by visitors from the Republic of Korea in the Northeast Asian markets, who numbered 35,663, down by 14.6% year-on-year. International visitor arrivals showing relatively notable growth came from Thailand – up 36.1% year-on-year to 20,447 – and the USA, up 10.5% to 12,426.
Same-day visitors totaled 2,149,311 in May, up by 7.9% year-on-year, while overnight visitors totaled 1,338,683, down by 3.0%. The average length of stay of visitors was 1.0 day.
Visitor arrival figures in May were supported by the favorable effect of the Labour Day Golden Week holiday. Macau recorded a satisfactory performance during the five-day holiday, with about 873,000 visitor arrivals representing an increase of about 2.7% over the previous year. On 2 May alone, visitor arrivals reached around 247,000, setting a new all-time record for single-day visitor arrivals to Macau.
For the first five months of 2026 combined, the number of visitor arrivals reached 18,143,294, up by 11.1% year-on-year. Same-day visitors (11,252,584) and overnight visitors (6,890,710) increased by 17.6% and 2.0% respectively.
International visitors totaled 1,244,042 in the first five months, up by 8.7% year-on-year. Meanwhile, the cumulative average length of stay of visitors decreased by 0.1 days year-on-year to 1.0 days. Length of stay of overnight visitors was 2.3 days.
