Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicates that, aided by the Lunar New Year Golden Week holidays, the number of visitor arrivals to Macau increased by 32.6% year-on-year to 4,172,940 in February.
The impressive tally included a 43.6% year-on year increase in visitors from mainland China to 3,291,164 in February, while visitors from Hong Kong grew 2.0% to 591,300 and from Taiwan by 31.9% to 89,628.
The nine-day Golden Week brought about 1.55 million visitors to Macau, with an average daily volume of 172,000. On 19 February, Macau recorded the peak of inbound arrivals during the holiday period, with 227,943 visitors entering to set a new record for the highest single-day inbound visitor arrivals in Macau’s history.
International visitors totaled 200,848 in February, down by 3.3% year-on-year. The decline was mainly attributable to fewer visitors from Indonesia (11,587) and Thailand (9,973), which dropped by 22.3% and 11.4% respectively. Visitors from the Republic of Korea also fell by 5.6% to 55,994, whereas visitors from the Philippines grew by 16.3% year-on-year to 45,195.
Same-day visitors in February grew by 41.8% to 2,676,431 and overnight visitors by 18.8% to 1,496,509.
For the first two months of 2026 combined, the total number of visitor arrivals totaled 7,820,268, up by 15.1% year-on-year. This included a 22.0% increase in same-day visitors to 4,931,130 and a 5.0% increase in overnight visitors to 2,889,138.
International visitors totaled 479,301 in the first two months, up by 6.8% year-on-year.
