Macau received more than 1.01 million visitors in the first six days of the eight-day mainland China holiday period celebrating the arrival of the lunar new year.
There were an estimated 1,010,174 visitors to the city from January 28 to February 2 inclusive, most of them from the Chinese mainland.
The lunar new year, a peak business period for Macau’s casinos and hotels, is often referred to as Lunar New Year Golden Week.
The start of the lunar new year was on January 29. China’s State Council has declared the mainland holiday – this time marking the Year of the Snake – as an eight-day period running from January 28 to February 4 inclusive.
Confirmed data for the first five days of the holiday, from the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), show 821,016 arrivals in that time, a decline of 8.6 percent compared to the 2024 Lunar New Year Golden Week, which ran from February 10 to Febrary 17 that year.
Preliminary data for Sunday – showing 189,158 arrivals – was published by the city’s Public Security Police, the agency responsible for monitoring Macau’s immigration points.
For the January 28 to February 2 period, mainland visitors accounted for 606,231 arrivals, down by 11.3 percent in year-on-year terms.
In that period, visitors from Hong Kong accounted for 158,191 arrivals, or a drop of 4.4 percent, according to MGTO figures.
