Macau logged a total of 157,214 visitor arrivals on Monday (May 4), the fourth day of this year’s Labour Day holidays, according to data from the city’s Public Security Police.
A total of 790,165 visitors entered Macau between May 1 and May 4 inclusive, covering the first four days of the five-day holiday period designated by China’s State Council for the Chinese mainland, Macau’s main tourism feeder market.
The figure represents a 4.3 percent increase compared with the first four days of the 2025 Labour Day break, when Macau recorded 757,429 visitor arrivals.
For this year, Macau saw a daily average of close to 198,000 visitor arrivals for the May 1 to May 4 period.
May 2 recorded the highest single-day tally of the holiday period, at 247,729 visitors. According to the police, this set a new all-time single-day visitor arrival record for Macau.
The police data do not include a breakdown of inbound visitors by source market.
However, they show that the city’s Border Gate — the land boundary crossing between Macau and Zhuhai, the nearest mainland city in Guangdong — was the busiest, handling more than 374,000 visitor arrivals in aggregate over the four days during the holiday period.
CLSA Ltd analyst Jeffrey Kiang wrote in a note over the weekend that during site visits to some of the city’s casinos on May 2 during the holidays, he had observed “healthy” minimum bets.
Mr Kiang noted: “With growing foot traffic into casinos from noon onwards, minimum bets were healthy, with HKD1,000 [US$127.6] to HKD2,000 the most commonly seen on the general mass floor.”
He added: “For higher-limit areas, minimum bets were up to HKD5,000 for the casinos we visited.”
CLSA said there was a “rising propensity” for premium-mass segment gamblers “to travel to Macau during off-peak weeks”.
On that basis, “a strong tail end, roughly for a week” in the aftermath of the May holidays “is possible,” Mr Kiang wrote.
