Southeast Asia Visitor Arrivals to Macau Soared by 81.2%

Written on January 23, 2008 by Macau

The number of visitor arrivals to Macau reached 2,618,823 in December 2007, representing a year-on-year increase of 21.1%. Visitors from Mainland China and Hong Kong rose by 26.8% and 2.7% respectively, with those from Southeast Asia soared by 81.2%. Meanwhile, same-day visitors accounted for 50.6% of the total arrivals, at 1,324,030.

The majority of the visitors came from Mainland China (55.3% of the total), Hong Kong (27.7%) and Southeast Asia (6.7%). Among the Mainland visitors, 47.4% travelled to Macao under the Individual Visit Scheme, at 687,000.

Visitor arrivals for the whole year of 2007 surged by 22.8% over 2006 to an all-time record of 27,003,370. Visitors from Mainland China grew by 24.1% to 14,873,490; arrivals from Hong Kong and Taiwan, China went up by 17.8% and 0.5% respectively. Furthermore, same-day visitors made up 52.1% of the total arrivals, at 14,058,164.

Analyzed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by sea increased by 17.3% to 8,980,381 over 2006. Among them, 8,488,612 arrived at the Outer Harbour, with 60.0% from Hong Kong and 23.8% from Mainland China. Visitor arrivals at the Inner Harbour totalled 483,625 and 50.8% were from Mainland China.

At the same time, visitor arrivals by land grew by 26.3% to 16,549,235. Among the 16,055,986 visitors entering through the Border Gate, those from Mainland China and Hong Kong accounted for 74.5% and 18.4% respectively. Meanwhile, there were 482,874 visitors arriving through the Checkpoint of CoTai.

In addition, arrivals by air totalled 1,473,754, an increase of 19.2% over 2006. Among the 1,465,619 arrivals at the Macao International Airport, visitors from Taiwan, China (43.6%), Southeast Asia (23.8%) and Mainland China (21.7%) were the major users.