April: Visitor arrivals up by 0.7 percent year-on-year

2013-5-24

From：Macau Daily Times

The number of visitor arrivals into Macau totaled 2,398,340 in April 2013, an increase of 0.7 percent year-on-year. According to information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), same-day visitors accounted for 51.7 percent of the total, at 1,238,786. In April 2013, visitors from mainland China increased by 10.4% year-on-year to 1,536,262, mainly coming from the Guangdong Province (647,340) and Fujian Province (65,463). Mainland visitors travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) totaled 613,876. Moreover, visitors from the Republic of Korea (30,616) and Thailand (27,173) increased by 8.9% and 20.0% respectively year-on-year, while those from Hong Kong (538,663) and Taiwan (81,607) decreased by 17.7% and 4.8% respectively. Long-haul visitors from the US (15,768), Australia (9,968) and Canada (6,821) decreased by 9.8%, 7.6% and 9.1% respectively year-on-year, whereas those from the Russian Federation (2,726) registered an increase of 21.1%. DSEC indicates that the average length of stay of visitors stood at 1.0 day in April 2013, down by 0.1 day year-on-year. Overnight and same-day visitors had an average stay of 1.8 days and 0.2 of a day respectively. In the first four months of 2013, visitor arrivals receded to a 1.6% increase over the same period year-on-year, at 9,474,782 with same-day visitors accounting for 51.9% of the total. Visitors from Mainland China increased by 5.9% year-on-year to 5,950,456, however, those from Hong Kong (2,262,993) and Taiwan (320,195) decreased by 4.7% and 4.6% respectively.

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