Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicates that number of visitor arrivals totalled 1,539,534 in May 2005, which represented a year-on-year increase of 16.0%. Compared with May last year, visitors from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, China increased 7.3%, 18.8% and 47.8% respectively. Meanwhile, same-day visitors accounted for 52.8% of the total arrivals, at 813,420. The majority of visitors came from Mainland China (56.6% of the total), Hong Kong (28.7%) and Taiwan, China (8.3%). Among the visitors from Mainland China, 446,792 (51.2%) travelled to Macao under the Individual Visit Scheme. In the first five months of 2005, visitor arrivals totalled 7,490,248, up 16.4% over the same period of last year. Visitors from Mainland China increased 12.2% to 4,187,576, which accounted for 55.9% of the total; Hong Kong and Taiwan, China shared 29.9% and 8.2% of the total respectively. Furthermore, same-day visitors made up 52.7% of the total, at 3,945,380. Analyzed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by sea went up 7.7% year-on-year to 2,661,756 in the first five months of 2005, with 2,590,678 arriving at the Outer Harbour (+7.2%); the majority of these visitors were from Hong Kong (59.3%) and Mainland China (29.7%). Visitor arrivals at the Inner Harbour rose 28.2% to 71,078, of which 69.3% were from Mainland China. Meanwhile, arrivals by land increased 20.3% year-on-year to 4,402,678, with 4,066,845 arriving through the Border Gate. The majority of these visitors came from Mainland China (77.0%) and Hong Kong (16.3%). Visitors arriving through the Checkpoint of CoTai were 335,833. In addition, arrivals by air were 425,814, up 41.3% compared with the same period of last year, with 421,023 arriving at the Macao International Airport (+42.9%). Visitors from Taiwan, China (69.3%) and Mainland China (15.7%) were the major users of this access.
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