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Macau’s Christmas visitors rise 9.9 percent
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Macau’s number of visitor arrivals during the Christmas holiday period between December 20-26 rose 9.92 percent year-on-year to 1.08 million,

30 December 201519 April 2016 BY STAFF REPORTER
BY STAFF REPORTER30 December 201519 April 2016

Macau’s number of visitor arrivals during the Christmas holiday period between December 20-26 rose 9.92 percent year-on-year to 1.08 million, the Public Security Police (PSP) announced on Tuesday.

According to a PSP statement, the city’s seven border checkpoints recorded 3.29 million crossings by locals and visitors during the 7-day period – 1.65 million entries and 1.64 million exits. Nearly three quarters of all entries and exits went through the Barrier Gate checkpoint.

Tuesday’s uplifting statistics came after a day after the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced that last month’s number of visitor arrivals fell 7.6 percent year-on-year and 1.8 percent month-to-month to 2.58 million, despite the Grand Prix weekend during that month.

Analysts described November’s decline as a “painful” experience for the gaming industry.

Meanwhile, the government’s income from direct gaming taxes fell 34.7 percent year-on-year to 78.54 billion patacas in the first 11 months of the year. Gaming taxes accounted for 76.9 percent of the government’s total receipts during the 11-month period. In the same period of last year, gaming taxes made up 82.5 percent of all government receipts.

(macaunews/macaupost)

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