Nearly 439,000 visitors entered Macao across the four-day Winter Solstice-Christmas weekend, according to figures from the Public Security Police.
Saturday was the busiest day, with more than 133,600 arrivals, local media reported. Christmas Eve saw 120,000 visitors, while Christmas Day drew in about 108,500.
The Border Gate was – as usual – the busiest checkpoint during the extended weekend, which stretched from 22 December to 25 December.
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The end-of-year boost to tourism should help the SAR fulfil finance secretary Lei Wai Nong’s recent prediction that at least 28 million visitors would enter the city in 2023.
That would be about 71 percent of 2019’s performance and 4.7 times the number of tourists who visited Macao during the pandemic-afflicted 2020.
November’s tally reached 2.58 million arrivals, bringing the total for the first 11 months of the year up to 25.27 million.
