Macao welcomed 2,601,000 visitors in April, its lowest monthly tally yet for the year – a 4.4 percent decline on March, according to figures released on Wednesday by the Statistics and Census Service.
The figure was, however, a 14.4 percent increase when compared with the corresponding period in 2023. Same day and overnight visitors grew by 23 and 6.3 percent year-on-year, respectively.
While visitors from the mainland increased by 25.3 percent year-on-year, those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme fell by 3 percent – despite two new cities, Xi’an and Qingdao, joining the scheme a month earlier.
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Arrivals from Macao’s various markets fluctuated significantly in April. Visitors from the nine mainland Greater Bay Area cities were up by 28.6 percent year-on-year. Hong Kongers were down by 22 percent and incoming travellers from Taiwan were up a whopping 120.6 percent.
International visitors also experienced a significant year-on-year jump of nearly 92 percent, totalling 208,297. That was 68.6 percent of their pre-pandemic, April 2019 tally.
For the first four months of the year, the number of visitors to Macao totalled 11,476,000. The figure is an almost 59 percent increase on last year, and just over 83 percent of April 2019’s level.
