Macau received just under 1.40 million visitors in the first eight days of the Chinese New Year holiday season. That is according to data from Macau’s Public Security Police, the agency responsible for monitoring the city’s immigration checkpoints.
As per the preliminary figures, the city received nearly 174,722 visitors per day since February 15.
Chinese New Year this time fell on February 17 (Tuesday) and the annual celebration is usually a peak business period for the tourism and gaming industries in Macau.
On the Chinese mainland – Macau’s main feeder market – the festival is being marked by a nine-day holiday that started on February 15 and runs until the end of today (Monday, February 23).
The police did not supply a breakdown on holiday-period visitors’ respective place of origin. However, the majority of tourists for the aggregate of the six days entered Macau via the Border Gate checkpoint (541,743 arrivals), the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (298,996 arrivals), and the Hengqin checkpoint (265,695 arrivals).
Separate information provided by the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) indicated that 932,752 of the visitors that entered the city between February 15 and 21 were from mainland China. Another 200,323 visitors in the first seven days of the Chinese New Year break came from Hong Kong, showed the MGTO data.
