Macau recorded 390,422 visitor arrivals coinciding with a three-day Chinese mainland holiday as authorised by the State Council – May 31 to June 2 inclusive – marking this year’s Dragon Boat Festival.
The tally was up 13.9 percent from the comparable period a year earlier, according to GGRAsia’s calculations based on official figures. In 2024, the festival – linked to the lunar calendar – ran from June 8 to June 10 inclusive, which was also a Saturday to a Monday.
The visitor tally this time represented a daily average of just over 130,140 arrivals, according to data from Macau’s Public Security Police.
The police data do not include any breakdown of the source markets for the inbound visitors.
Macau draws most of its tourists from the Chinese mainland. In the first quarter, mainlanders accounted for 6.30 million arrivals, or about 71.0 percent of the city’s total 8.88-million tourists in the three months to March 31.
Across the three days of the mainland’s Dragon Boat Festival break this year, Macau’s Border Gate – the main inland boundary crossing between Macau and Zhuhai, the nearest mainland city, in Guangdong province – was the busiest. It handled 177,765 visitor arrivals in aggregate. That accounted for 45.5 percent of all Macau arrivals for the festive period.
The second-busiest boundary checkpoint was the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge crossing, which handled an aggregate of 74,934 visitor arrivals for the period. That accounted for just under 19.2 percent of all Macau arrivals for the three days of the holiday.
The Macau boundary crossing from the mainland-China location Hengqin Island, next door to Macau, recorded 62,366 arrivals, showed the data. That was just under 16.0 percent of the total for the festive period.
Taipa Ferry Terminal registered 22,925 inbound visitors in the holiday period, which was just below 5.9 percent of the total.
Macau International Airport recorded 21,078 arrivals, or 5.4 percent of the aggregate.
Hong Kong – Macau’s second-biggest visitor source market, supplying just over 20 percent of all arrivals in the first quarter – marked May 31 as a public holiday.
