Macau received 10.01 million visitor arrivals in the calendar year to April 2, up 11 percent from the prior-year period when the city logged 9.02 million arrivals, according to a statistics update published by the city’s Public Security Police.
In 2024, Macau had passed the “10-million” visitor arrival mark on April 13, showed data from the local authorities.
The arrival tally as of April 2 this year represented a recovery of approximately 95 percent when compared to the same period in 2019, the immediate trading year before the Covid-19 pandemic, according to official data.
Out of the 10.01 million arrivals up to April 2, nearly 73 percent – or 7.3 million – were mainland Chinese visitors.
Those from Hong Kong – the city’s second-most important visitor feeder market – accounted for 17.8 percent, or 1.78 million, whereas international visitors tallied approximately 690,000, or 7.0 percent of the aggregate arrivals for the period.
Macau welcomed 409,000 visitor arrivals between April 4 (Friday) and April 6 (Sunday), a period designated on the mainland as the Ching Ming Festival break. The same public holiday was only marked as April 4 in Hong Kong, according to a Monday update from the public security police.
The visitor tally for April 4 to 6 this year marked a 14.7-percent increase from the same holiday period in 2024, said the police. About 73.7 percent of those 409,000 visitors were from mainland China, and another 17.6 percent from Hong Kong.
