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Macau’s visitor arrivals up 12.1% in the first quarter of 2010
Macao News > Tourism > Macau’s visitor arrivals up 12.1% in the first quarter of 2010

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Macau, China, 26 Apr – Macau’s visitor arrivals totaled 6,115,221 in the first quarter of 2010, up by 12.1 percent

(FILES) Mainland Chinese tourists walk down the steps in front St. Paul's Cathedral, 23 November 1999 in Macau, which will revert to Chinese rule 19 December ending 443 years of Portuguese administration. Gambling haven Macau saw tourist arrivals soar 17 percent year-on-year in 2006, with a record 22 million people visiting the southern Chinese city's booming casinos, authorities said 17 January 2007. AFP PHOTO / Frederic J. BROWN (Photo credit should read FREDERIC BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)
26 April 201015 April 2016 BY STAFF REPORTER
BY STAFF REPORTER26 April 201015 April 2016

Macau, China, 26 Apr – Macau’s visitor arrivals totaled 6,115,221 in the first quarter of 2010, up by 12.1 percent year-on-year according to the figures released Friday by the city’s Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).

Visitor arrivals by land reached 3.21 million in the first quarter of 2010, up by 14.7 percent while the number of those by sea and air respectively stood at 2. 46 million and 426,580 in the same period, the DSEC said.

Arrivals in March 2010 totaled 2.01 million, up by 6.7 percent year on year, according to the figures released Friday by the city’s Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).

The figure showed that visitors from the Chinese mainland increased by 8.2 percent year on year to 1.05 million, with 421, 704 traveling to Macau under the Individual Visit Scheme, down by 5.8 percent from March 2009.

Of the total visitor arrivals in March, those from Hong Kong ( 569,466), Japan (41,815) and Malaysia (37,238) rose by 4.4 percent, 17.6 percent and 2.1 percent respectively, while those from Taiwan (114,409) decreased by 4 percent, the DSEC figures indicated.

Macau receives 21.7 million visitors last year, a decrease of 5.1 percent on 2008.

(MacauNews)

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