Record August arrivals

2014/9/24

From：Macau Business Daily

No gloom on the visitor arrival front. August welcomed the largest number of tourists Macau has registered in a single month. 3.1 million people. Various mainland visitor indicators rose.

It was a new record for a single month – 3.1 million tourists visited Macau in August alone, up 7 percent from the same month a year ago. The latest figures released yesterday by the Statistics and Census Service show reveal that same-day visitors accounted for over half of the total at 54 percent or 1.7 million.
While mainland China continued to be the primary source of visitors to the territory, with their numbers increasing by 13 percent from August 2013 to 2.1 million this year alone, tourists from South Korea took a particular liking to travelling here, with numbers showing a 20.1 percent increase last month to 58,115 year-on-year. Of all mainland Chinese visiting Macau last month, the number of those travelling under the individual visit scheme rose by 19 percent to 1.1 million.
In addition, the number of visitors from the United Kingdom increased by 8.9 percent to 5,677. Visitors from Canada and Taiwan, however, chose to steer clear of Macau. The latter saw numbers drop 10.5 percent in August to 88,253 compared to the same month only a year earlier, while the former decreased by 7.3 percent to 5,128.
So far this year as many as 21.1 million tourists have visited Macau, an 8 percent increase on a year earlier.
While the number of Taiwanese visitors dropped in the month of August, their overall number for the eight months between January and August totalled 646,953 – making them the third main source of tourists after mainland China (14.2 million) and Hong Kong (4.4 million), respectively.
Visitors continued to spend an average of one day in the territory, with overnight visitors staying an average of 1.9 days and same-day visitors 0.2 days.

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