According to the autonomous territory's statistics department

Macau visitors increased by 9.2 percent in October

The increase was due to the National Day holiday and the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (photo).
2018-11-26
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The Chinese enclave's latest report shows a year-on- year increase of 9.2 percent in visitor arrivals, as well as a 23.2 percent month-to-month rise in October 2018 to 3,154,291,.

The latest report showed that overnight visitors (1,549,891) and same-day visitors (1,604,400) had increased by 5.4 percent and 13.2 percent respectively year-on-year. The average length of stay of visitors held steady year-on-year at 1.2 days, with that of overnight visitors rising by 0.1 of a day to 2.3 days and that of same-day visitors staying 0.2 days.

As disclosed by Macau's statistics department said on Friday, the increase was due to the National Day holiday and the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge.

Visitors from the Chinese mainland increased by 12.1 percent year-on-year to 2,306,844 in October, primarily from Guangdong Province (1,001,563) and Hunan Province (110,850). Visitors from Hong Kong (509,369) rose by 9.3 percent, whereas those from South Korea (60,240) and Taiwan (81,846) dropped by 25.2 percent and 3.9 percent respectively. Meanwhile, visitors from the U.S. (18,404), Australia (8,254) and Britain (5,741) registered year-on-year increases, while those from Canada (6,320) decreased.

In the first ten months of 2018, visitor arrivals totaled 28,967,555, up by 8.4 percent year-on-year. Overnight visitors (15,162,438) and same-day visitors (13,805,117) increased by 7.5 percent and 9.4 percent respectively. The average length of stay of visitors went up by 0.1 of a day year-on-year to 1.3 days.

Visitors from the Chinese mainland (20,527,999) increased by 13.1 percent, while those from South Korea (667,941), Hong Kong (5,055,123) and Taiwan (885,833) dropped by 7.8 percent, 1.3 percent and 0.2 percent respectively.

As reported by Macau Daily Times, visitors from the U.S. (159,661), Australia (71,828) and Britain (46,948) recorded year-on-year growth, whereas those from Canada (58,116) saw a decrease.

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