Macau saw a daily average of just above 140,000 visitor arrivals for the Easter Friday to Easter Sunday period, from April 18 to April 20 inclusive, according to preliminary data from Macau’s Public Security Police.
For Hong Kong – Macau’s second-largest source market for tourists after mainland China – the Easter holiday season this year runs from Good Friday (April 18) to Easter Monday (April 21) inclusive. Easter is not a holiday on the Chinese mainland.
Macau’s aggregate visitor arrivals for the three-day period were 420,099. Saturday saw the biggest single-day tally across the three days, at 161,309.
The police data do not include any breakdown of the source markets for the inbound visitors.
But they show that the city’s Border Gate – the inland boundary crossing between Macau and Zhuhai, the nearest mainland city, in Guangdong province – was the busiest. It handled 160,790 visitor arrivals in aggregate for the three Easter days.
The second-busiest boundary checkpoint was the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge crossing, which handled an aggregate of 114,503 visitor arrivals for the same period, showed the data.
