Macao recorded 5.89 million visitor arrivals last year, a year-on-year drop of 85.0%.
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The police recorded 69.55 million entries and exits by locals and visitors at the city’s border checkpoints last year, a 64.2% decrease from 2019.
Mainlanders accounted for 92.5%of all visitor arrivals. Some 51.5% of all mainland visitors came from the Greater Bay Area.
Macao’s number of visitor arrivals grew by 29.6% month-to-month to 581,986 last month, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said in a statement on Tuesday.
Macao’s visitor arrivals rose 206.9% month-to-month but fell 93.7% year-on-year to 227,113 in August, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Monday.
Local residents accounted for 53 per cent of Macao hotels’ guests last month.
Macao’s number of visitor arrivals in July rose 228.1% month-on-month but fell 97.3% year-on-year to 74,006.
In the first half of 2020, the number of visitor arrivals decreased by 83.9% year-on-year to 3,268,900, according to the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
Macao’s 108 hotels and guesthouses recorded 116,000 guests last month, a year-on-year decline of 89.9%.