If the final two months of the year manage to bring in five million visitor arrivals, Macao’s total for 2023 will surpass 27 million.
Macau visitors
Local hotels and tour operators are counting on a big surge in visitor numbers over the Labour Day holiday to add fresh impetus to Macao’s emergence from the pandemic.
Visitors to the territory over the long weekend don’t appear to have read the memo on Macao’s economic diversification.
Mainlanders make up the bulk of the market, however beds stand empty for around one night in two, with occupancy rates at 44%.
Covid-19 blamed for fewer arrivals; GBA supplies more than half of Macao’s visitors, with most coming from Zhuhai.
Macau received almost 20 million visitors In the first seven months of 2018, a 7.4% year-on-year increase, according to statement released Thursday by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
Visitors’ total non-gaming spending reached 61.32 billion patacas (US$7.66 billion) in 2017, a year-on-year increase of 16.4 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.
Macau’s visitor arrivals reached 3,053,690 last month, a new record since August 2014, up 8.5 percent year on year and 7.8 percent month to month, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said Tuesday.