• Total visitor arrivals grew by 9.8 per cent to exceed 35.8 million in 2018

Overnight-stay visitors exceed same-day visitors for three consecutive years

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Macao tourism industry demonstrated fair performance overall in 2018, bolstered by the inauguration of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and the concerted efforts of different tourism sectors. Data for 2018 revealed an increase in numerous tourism indicators last year including total visitor arrivals, visitor arrivals from the Greater China markets, sum of overnight-stay visitors as well as visitor expenditure. Surpassing same-day visitor arrivals for three years in a row, overnight-stay visitor arrivals surged year-on-year by 7.2 per cent to account for 51.7 per cent of total visitor arrivals. 

Total visitor arrivals grew by 9.8 per cent to exceed 35.8 million in 2018, of whom more than 32.6 million visitors came from the Greater China markets, a rise of 11 per cent. International visitor arrivals dropped slightly by 1.1 per cent to 3.1 million and more. Since the opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge on 24th October 2018, 1.05 million visitors entered Macao via the Bridge, the port of entry which received the second largest number of visitors to Macao during the period.   

Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan region remained Macao’s top three visitor source markets, all of which registered increases in visitor volume. The city welcomed over 25 million Mainland visitors last year, up by 13.8 per cent, with 41 per cent of the visitors from Guangdong Province. The figure includes over 12 million individual visitors, which constitute 48.6 per cent of Mainland visitor arrivals. On the other hand, visitor arrivals from Hong Kong and Taiwan region rose by 2.6 per cent and 0.1 per cent, respectively. 

Korea continued to rank first among international markets, contributing over 810 thousand visitors to Macao last year. Visitor arrivals from Japan and the Philippines both exceeded 310 thousand whilst visitor arrivals from the United States, the only long-haul market among the top ten visitor source markets, climbed by 8.3 per cent. 

Overnight-stay visitor arrivals climbed by 7.2 per cent to surpass 18.4 million, accounting for 51.7 per cent of total visitor arrivals and exceeding same-day visitor arrivals for three years in a row since 2016. Same-day visitor arrivals, on the other hand, surged by a double-digit increase of 12.7 per cent to exceed 17.3 million. The average length of stay of overnight-stay visitors rose by 0.1 days to 2.2 days, while that of all visitors to Macao stood at 1.2 days.