Macau’s number of visitor arrivals between last Friday, Chinese New Year’s (CNY) Eve and Wednesday fell 76.5% to 243,204 compared to the same CNY period last year.
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The local airport expects 10.35 million passengers this year, which would be an increase of about 8% from last year.
Macau’s number of visitor arrivals last month rose a mere 1.8% year-on-year to 3.2 million.
Macau recorded 30.2 million visitors in the first nine months of the year, a year-on-year growth of 17%.
Macau’s number of visitor arrivals rose 6.5% year-on-year to 3.62 million in August.
Macau hosted a record 35.8 million visitor arrivals last year, a year-on-year increase of 9.8 percent, the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) announced Wednesday citing official figures released by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) on the same day.
Macau received 28.9 million vivitors in the period from January to October, an increase of 8.4% year-on-year, according to the region’s Statistics and Census Bureau.
Macau’s 116 hotels and guesthouses recorded 1.1 million guests in September, a 6 pct increase year on year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said.
In the first eight months of the year, 23,251,990 visitors came in, or 8.9%, compared to the same period of 2017, according to information from the Macau Statistics and Census Service.