Information from Statistics and Census Service indicates that number of visitor arrivals totalled 1,532,993 in March 2005, which represented a year-on-year increase of 17.3%. Visitors from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, China increased 4.5%, 32.4% and 33.0% respectively compared with March last year. Meanwhile, same-day visitors accounted for 53.2% of the total arrivals, at 815,921. The majority of visitors came from Mainland China (54.0% of the total), Hong Kong (31.7%) and Taiwan, China (8.4%). Among the visitors from Mainland China, 422,359 (51.1%) travelled to Macao under the Individual Visit Scheme. In the first quarter of 2005, visitor arrivals totalled 4,457,022, up 18.8% over the same period of last year. Visitors from Mainland China increased 13.5% to 2,485,015, which accounted for 55.8% of the total; Hong Kong and Taiwan, China shared 30.5% and 8.0% of the total respectively. Furthermore, same-day visitors made up 52.7% of the total, at 2,347,930. Analyzed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by sea went up 10.0% year on year to 1,593,151 in the first quarter of 2005, with 1,549,439 arriving at the Outer Harbour (+9.6%); the majority of these visitors were from Hong Kong (60.2%) and Mainland China (29.0%). Visitor arrivals at the Inner Harbour rose 28.5% to 43,712, of which 70.0% were from Mainland China. Meanwhile, arrivals by land increased 22.9% year on year to 2,619,761, with 2,419,482 arriving through the Border Gate. The majority of these visitors came from Mainland China (76.9%) and Hong Kong (16.6%). Visitors arriving through the Checkpoint of CoTai were 200,279. In addition, arrivals by air were 244,110, up 42.9% compared with the same period of last year, with 241,445 arriving at the Macao International Airport (+44.2%). Visitors from Taiwan, China (69.5%) and Mainland China (15.8%) were the major users of this access.
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