In the first half of 2020, the number of visitor arrivals decreased by 83.9 per cent year-on-year to 3,268,900, according to the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
Same-day visitors (1,723,218) and overnight visitors (1,545,682) declined by 84.0 per cent and 83.7 per cent respectively.
Visitors from mainland China (2,339,589), Hong Kong (652,522) and Taiwan (81,628) all recorded decreases of more than 80 per cent.
According to DSEC, Macao received 22,556 visitors in June, a decline of more than 90 per cent year-on-year.
In terms of the source of visitors, the number of mainland Chinese visitors fell by 99.0 per cent year-on-year to 21,067 (93.4 per cent of total), with 11,235 coming from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area.
Macao received 1,142 visitors from Hong Kong and 326 from Taiwan.
Visitor arrivals by land totalled 22,443 in June, and 77.3 per cent of them arrived through the Border Gate (17,344). Besides, there were just 113 visitor arrivals by air.
Since February, the Macao government took drastic measures to cut the influx of visitors from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other countries in order to contain the spread of COVID-19.
