Macau received 850,034 visitors during the five-day mainland China holiday period surrounding Labour Day. The preliminary data was published by the city’s Public Security Police, the agency responsible for monitoring Macau’s immigration checkpoints.
The tally this year represented an increase of circa 40.6 percent compared to the 604,395 arrivals to Macau recorded in the same period of 2024.
China’s State Council had designated this year’s Labour Day holidays on the mainland – Macau’s main feeder market – as May 1 to May 5 inclusive. Some commentators refer to the holiday period as ‘May Golden Week’.
May 1 and May 5 were also public holidays in Hong Kong, Macau’s second most important market for inbound visitors.
The aggregate figure represented a daily average of just above 170,000 arrivals during this year’s Labour Day holiday season, up from an average of 120,000 arrivals a day in the comparable period a year earlier.
The police data do not include any breakdown of the source markets for the inbound visitors.
The city’s Border Gate – the main inland boundary crossing between Macau and Zhuhai, the nearest mainland city, in Guangdong province – was the busiest. It handled 379,153 visitor arrivals in aggregate for the five-day holiday break.
The second-busiest boundary checkpoint was the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge crossing, which handled an aggregate of 155,264 visitor arrivals for the period, while the Macau boundary crossing at Hengqin recorded 135,691 arrivals, showed the data.
Macau gaming floors had decent customer traffic on Friday (May 2), the second day of the holiday period this year, according to GGRAsia spot checks. Properties in Macau’s Cotai district were the busiest, with punters favouring mass-market baccarat tables with a HKD2,000 (US$258) denomination.
