Macau welcomed a total of 4,478,073 visitor arrivals in August, representing a 6.1% year-on-year increase according to information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
The tally included an 11.7% increase in same-day visitors to 2,853,011 while overnight visitors fell by 2.4% to 1,625,062. The average length of stay of visitors also dropped by 0.1 days year-on-year to 1.0 days.
In terms of source markets, visitors from mainland Chinese increased by 9.3% year-on-year to 3,561,667 in August, with those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme up by 12.7% to 2,019,744. Visitors from Taiwan rose by 13.7% to 101,282, while those from Hong Kong fell 5.6% to 643,445.
International visitors totalled 171,679 in August, down by 9.8% year-on-year. Those from Southeast Asian markets included an 18.5% decline in arrivals from the Philippines to 31,282 and a 16.9% fall in those from Indonesia to 11,106, with arrivals from Malaysia up 2.1% to 8,161.
In Northeast Asia, visitors from South Korea declined by 12.6% to 30,738 and those from Japan by 31.1% to 11,464. Of long-haul markets, visitors from the USA edged down by 0.4% year-on-year to 11,713.
For the first eight months of 2026 combined, the number of visitor arrivals rose by 7.7% year-on-year to 28,964,737. This included 17,850,599 same-day visitors, up 13.6% year-on-year, while overnight visitors dropped by 0.6% to 11,114,138.
