Roughly 406,000 tourists visited Macao during the four-day Easter holiday between 29 March and 1 April, according to official data cited by Macao Daily News.
The average of 101,500 people arriving in Macao per day over the period is in line with the earlier expectation of the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), which predicted a daily average of 100,000 visitors.
Saturday saw the highest number of arrivals, with a total of 122,235. Good Friday and Easter Sunday, on the other hand, saw 105,169 and 103,000 arrivals respectively, while a total of 75,882 visitors arrived in the city on Monday.
The Gongbei Border Gate between Macao and Zhuhai was by far the busiest point of entry, registering a total of 106,296 arrivals during the first three days of the long weekend.
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In second place was the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, which recorded 105,402 arrivals during the corresponding period.
While these numbers represent an increase over last year’s figures of 263,000 visitors or a daily average of 87,660, they still fall short of the totals from pre-pandemic 2019, when there were 550,000 visitors or an average of 137,500 per day.
Earlier, MGTO chief, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes predicted that many of the visitors in Macao during the long weekend would come from Hong Kong rather than mainland China, where Easter is not a public holiday.
For the upcoming Cheng Ming Festival, which is a public holiday that runs between 4 and 6 April in mainland China, the MGTO head expressed hopes that the arrival rate would also reach 100,000 people per day.
