Published on : Friday, January 25, 2019
According to the MGTO, 400 travel industry and media representatives attended a press conference about last year’s tourism developments and projects and prospects for this year. The annual press conference at Macau Tower was headed by MGTO Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes.
According to official statistics, overnight visitors accounted for 51.6 per cent of the total number of visitor arrivals last year, up 7.2 per cent year-on-year. Same-day visitors rose 12.7 per cent. Visitors’ average length of stay remained unchanged year-on-year at 1.2 days. On average, overnight visitors stayed for 2.2 days. Almost 91 per cent of visitors are from mainland China, HongKong, and Taiwan
Mainlanders, Hongkongers and Taiwanese accounted for 70.5 per cent, 17.6 per cent and 2.9 per cent respectively, up 13.8 per cent, 2.6 per cent and 0.1 per cent respectively. The three Chinese regions accounted for 91 per cent of Macau’s total number of visitor arrivals last year. South Korea continued to be Macau’s number one source of foreign visitors, rising 7 percent to 812.842, or 2.3 percent of all visitor arrivals.
A total of 201,810 US citizens visited Macau last year, up 8.3 per cent. Each of the other foreign visitor segments remained under the 100,000 threshold.
Following the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Bridge bridge on October 24 last year, 1.05 million visitors entered Macau via the mega-bridge, the point of entry which received the second largest number of visitors during the period.
The Zhuhai-Macau Barrier Gate land-border checkpoint handled 18.2 million visitor arrivals last year, a year-on-year growth of 13.2 percent. In total, 22.15 million visitors arrived by land.
In the wake of the opening of the delta bridge, the number of visitor arrivals by sea fell 7.8 percent to 10.3 million last year.
A total of 3.56 million visitors arrived last month, up 16.9 percent year-on-year and 9.3 percent month-to-month, hitting a new monthly record. On average, 115,155 visitors arrived in Macau in December.
At the press conference a forecast of an increase in visitor arrivals of 5 or 6 per cent this year, or up to 38 million was predicted.
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