Macau welcomed a total of 3,472,477 visitor arrivals in October, up 10.8% year-on-year and 25.1% higher than in September. The total included a 17.6% year-on-year increase in same-day visitors to 2,103,520 and a 1.7% increase in overnight visitors to 1,368,957, with the average length of stay remaining at 1.1 days.
While October set a post-pandemic record when it came to the gross gaming revenue of gaming operators at MOP$24.09 billion (US$3.01 billion), actual visitor numbers were lower than both the record 4,219,024 arrivals in August and the 3,646,561 arrivals in January.
Mainland China was again the main source of arrivals, with 2,534,601 visitors representing a 12.0% year-on-year increase including 1,321,511 travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (1,321,511), up 22.6%. Another 214,368 travelled under the “one trip per week measure”, 97,365 under the “multiple-entry measure” and 11,667 under the “tourist group multi-entry measure”.
Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area rose by 13.8% year-on-year to 1,318,837, driven by an upsurge of 50.9% in the number of visitors from Zhuhai. Visitors from the Taiwan region rose 34.2% year-on-year to 92,165, while those from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region decreased by 1.0% to 584,767. International visitors totalled 260,944 in October, up by 22.9% year-on-year.
Of Southeast Asian markets, visitors from Thailand grew by 118.5% year-on-year to 26,299, those from the Philippines by 15.3% to 44,863, from Indonesia by 24.7% to 16,985, from Malaysia by 1.8% to 16,206 and Singapore by 6.1% to 10,140. For the Northeast Asian markets, visitors from the Republic of Korea rose by 10.6% to 52,057 and from Japan by 32.1% to 12,675.
For the 10 months of 2025 combined, the number of visitor arrivals grew by 14.1% year-on-year to 33,143,547 with the average length of stay shortened by 0.1 days year-on-year to 1.1 days.
