Macau set a new post-COVID record for daily visitor arrivals on Sunday, with 133,911 arrivals on the second day of China’s “May Day” Golden Week holiday period.
According to information released by the Public Security Police, a total of around 570,000 people entered and exited Macau on Sunday, of which more than 290,000 were arrivals and 133,911 of those tourists. There were more than 283,000 exits, with tourists accounting for around 120,000.
Of the total number of arrivals, 145,000 came through the Border Gate, 44,000 through the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and 42,000 through the QingMao Port.
This week’s holiday is the second “Golden Week” since the lifting of the anti-epidemic policy in Macau on 8 January. Compared to last year, the number of visitors to Macau on a single day on Sunday was almost the same as the number of visitors during the entirety of last year’s five-day Golden Week, when 137,000 visitors arrived at an average of around 27,000 per day.
However, during the four-day Golden Week holiday in 2019, before the pandemic, 636,000 people visited Macau, with a daily average of 159,000 visitors.
