Macau saw a daily average of just above 130,000 visitor arrivals for the four-day Easter period, from Friday (April 18) to Monday (April 21) inclusive.
The 140,000 average seen over the first three days of the Easter season was brought down by a more modest performance on Monday, when there were 99,966 arrivals, according to data from Macau’s Public Security Police.
Regionally, Easter Monday is only a public holiday in Hong Kong – Macau’s second-largest source market for tourists after mainland China –, while Easter Friday is a holiday in Hong Kong and Macau. The Easter season is not a break period on the Chinese mainland.
The aggregate of Macau arrivals for the four-day period was 520,065. Other data issued earlier by Macau’s Public Security Police indicated Saturday had seen the biggest single-day tally across the four days of Easter, at 161,309.
The police data do not include any breakdown of the source markets for the inbound visitors.
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 200,003 visitor arrivals in aggregate for the four Easter days.
The second-busiest boundary checkpoint was the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge crossing, which handled an aggregate of 144,818 visitor arrivals for the period, showed the data.
