Visitor arrivals to Macau in September rose 9.8 percent year-on-year, to nearly 2.78 million, according to data issued on Friday by Macau’s Statistics and Census Bureau.
September’s tally comes after the city registered a new monthly record in August, at nearly 4.22 million arrivals.
The tally of same-day visitors to the city in September rose 19.4 percent year-on-year, to just above 1.56 million, while that of overnight visitors fell by 0.5 percent, to 1.21 million.
Average length of stay shortened by 0.1 day year-on-year, to 1.2 days. The average for overnight visitors was unchanged at 2.3 days, while that for same-day visitors stood at 0.3 of a day.
In the first nine months this year, Macau recorded just over 29.67-million arrivals from all markets, up 14.5 percent year-on-year.
The aggregate number of visitors in the January to September period from the Chinese mainland increased 18.4 percent year-on-year, to nearly 21.58 million, showed Friday’s data. Those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme reached 11.51 million, up 24.3 percent from a year earlier.
International visitors totalled 1.89 million in the nine months to September 30, up 12.4 percent year-on-year.
Macau is expected to record about 39 million visitor arrivals in 2025, said in recent comments to reporters the director of the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO).
The Macau government has projected the city could get as many as 46.43 million visitors annually by 2030, about 33-percent more than 2024’s figure of 34.93 million.
That is according to the estimates included in MGTO’s latest “tourism industry development master plan”, published in late September.
