Macau recorded 303,575 visitor arrivals in the first two days – May 31 and June 1 – of this year’s Dragon Boat Festival, according to data from Macau’s Public Security Police.
The tally was up 17.1 percent from the comparable period a year earlier, according to GGRAsia’s calculations based on official figures.
The Dragon Boat Festival is marked this year from Saturday (May 31) to Monday (June 2). The three days are public holidays in mainland China, Macau’s main feeder market for general tourists and for its casino players.
The police data do not include any breakdown of the source markets for the inbound visitors.
The city’s Border Gate – the main inland boundary crossing between Macau and Zhuhai, the nearest mainland city, in Guangdong province – was the busiest. It handled 139,851 visitor arrivals in aggregate for the first two days of the festivity.
The second-busiest boundary checkpoint was the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge crossing, which handled an aggregate of 56,185 visitor arrivals for the period, while the Macau boundary crossing at Hengqin recorded 51,690 arrivals, showed the data.
