Macau welcomed an aggregate of 7.68 million visitors across July and August, or a daily average of 123,870, according to a Monday update from the city’s Public Security Police.
The tally for the two summer months represented circa 15-percent growth on the same period last year, as well as being 7.4-percent up on the same timespan in 2019, the police statement also noted.
July and August 2024 brought 6.67 million arrivals according to data from Macau’s Statistics and Census Service. There had been 7.15 million in the same period in 2019, the immediate trading year before Covid-19 hit tourism globally.
This July and August, the feeder markets of mainland China and Hong Kong remained in top and second spot, noted the Public Security Police, the agency responsible for overseeing the city’s immigration checkpoints.
The mainland supplied 75.8 percent of July-August arrivals, with 17.0 percent from Hong Kong; while those from the international markets, i.e., outside Greater China region, accounted for 4.8 percent.
The latest police update suggests August alone yielded 4.22 million arrivals, a sequential increase of nearly 22 percent on July’s 3.46 million.
Official August visitor data are due to be announced by the statistics service later this month.
