Macau received nearly 927,000 visitors in a six-day period starting from February 14, and encompassing the first five days of the Chinese New Year holiday season.
The update was given by Macau’s Public Security Police, the agency responsible for monitoring the city’s immigration checkpoints. As per the preliminary data, the city received nearly 154,491 visitors per day since February 14.
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 runs until Monday, February 23.
On Thursday, Macau recorded 227,943 arrivals, according to the figures released by the authorities. It was the highest daily tally for the holiday season so far.
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 (354,010 arrivals), the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (200,289 arrivals), and the Hengqin checkpoint (174,871 arrivals).
Separate information provided by the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) indicated that 407,661 of the visitors that entered the city between February 15 and 18 were from mainland China. Another 96,401 visitors in the first four days of the Chinese New Year break came from Hong Kong, showed the MGTO data.
