Both the average daily and single-day visitor arrivals during the nine-day period of the Chinese New Year holiday season this year, reached a new high since official record-keeping started for this holiday break. That is according to a Tuesday press release issued by the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO).
Preliminary figures show that Macau received just over 1.55 million visitors during the holiday period. The daily average of visitors topped 173,000 during the festive season, up 5.5 percent from the comparable period a year earlier, and “exceeded the level” seen in 2019, at 171,702, said the tourism office.
Chinese New Year fell on February 17 this time, and the Chinese mainland – Macau’s main tourism feeder market – had a nine-day holiday from February 15 to February 23. In 2025, the lunar new year was January 29, and the mainland holiday was an eight-day break, from January 28 to February 4.
Single-day visitor arrivals peaked at 227,943 on February 19, the third day of the Chinese New Year, according to the preliminary data.
MGTO said the figure for February 19 increased by 4.0 percent compared with that of the third day of Chinese New Year in 2025, and “reached an all-time-high” since there were “official statistics” for this holiday period,
The MGTO data showed that nearly 1.21-million of the visitors that entered the city during this year’s holiday break were from mainland China. The average daily volume of Chinese mainland visitors stood at 134,000, 7.2-percent higher than the comparable period in 2025.
International visitor arrivals topped 71,000 cumulatively. The daily average of international visitor arrivals stood at 7,900, a year-on-year rise of 8.2 percent, it said.
MGTO also said, citing industry data, that the average hotel occupancy rate during the Chinese New Year period reached 95.6 percent, having peaked at 99.2 percent on February 20.
