The daily average of visitors to Macau during this year’s eight-day October Golden Week reached the “highest” level on record since official statistics for this holiday break started to be compiled. That is according to a Thursday press release issued by the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO).
Preliminary figures show that Macau received just over 1.14 million visitors during the eight days of the 2025 holiday period. The daily average of visitors topped 143,000 during the October Golden Week, up by 1.9 percent from the comparable period a year earlier, and a 2.8-percent increase from 2019.
October Golden Week is a major festive break for mainland China consumers and a peak trading period for Macau’s casinos. Mainland China is the main feeder market for Macau’s tourism sector.
China’s State Council had designated this year’s holiday period on the mainland as running from October 1 to 8, encompassing China’s National Day on October 1, and the lunar calendar-based Mid-Autumn Festival, which this year fell on October 6. It compared with a seven-day holiday break in October 2024.
Single-day visitor arrivals peaked at 191,176 on Saturday (October 4). But the daily volume declined to 113,051 on Sunday, as travel to and from Macau was impacted by Typhoon Matmo.
Both the average daily and single-day visitor arrivals during this year’s October Golden Week reached all-time highs “since there were official statistics” for this holiday period, noted MGTO in its Thursday announcement.
The MGTO data showed that 942,567 of the visitors that entered the city during this year’s October Golden Week were from mainland China. The average daily volume of Chinese mainland visitors stood at 118,000, 1.1-percent higher than the comparable period in 2024.
Another 127,860 visitors came from Hong Kong, while international visitor arrivals topped 57,000, said MGTO.
The average daily volume of international visitors reached about 7,200, up 29.9 percent from the corresponding period a year earlier.
MGTO also said the average hotel occupancy rate during this year’s October Golden Week reached 87.9 percent, having peaked at 93.5 percent on October 2.
The average room rate at the city’s accomodation establishments – encompassing hotels, apartment hotels and other establishments – stood at MOP1,698.8 (US$212) during the October Golden Week, a year-on-year decrease of 7.8 percent, indicated the data.
