Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicated that the total number of visitor arrivals reached 1,949,583 in November 2006, representing a year-on-year increase of 21.4%. Visitors from Mainland China; Hong Kong; and Taiwan, China grew 14.5%, 33.9% and 9.1% respectively. Meanwhile, same-day visitors accounted for 51.5% of the total arrivals, at 1,003,355. Visitors came mainly from Mainland China (54.8% of the total), Hong Kong (30.6%) and Taiwan, China (6.1%). Among those from Mainland China, 513,119 (48.0%) travelled to Macao under the Individual Visit Scheme. In the first eleven months of 2006, visitor arrivals totalled 19,835,205, which have surpassed the annual total of 2005 (18,711,187), up 16.4% over the same period of last year. Visitors from Mainland China rose 13.7% to 10,843,042, which accounted for 54.7% of the total arrivals; those from Hong Kong and Taiwan, China shared 31.4% and 6.7% respectively. Furthermore, same-day visitors made up 51.6% of the total, at 10,237,410. Analyzed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by sea increased 13.2% year-on-year to 6,900,231 in the first eleven months of 2006, with 6,562,275 arriving at the Outer Harbour; the majority of these visitors were from Hong Kong (59.9%) and Mainland China (27.6%). Visitor arrivals at the Inner Harbour jumped 78.7% to 337,956. At the same time, the cumulative number of visitors arriving through the Border Gate soared 25.9% to 11,816,570. The majority of the visitors came from Mainland China (73.0%) and Hong Kong (19.1%). In addition, visitor arrivals by air were 1,118,404, up 17.2% compared with the same period of last year, with 1,109,147 arriving at the Macao International Airport (+17.4%). Visitors from Taiwan, China (54.7%) and Mainland China (20.2%) were the major users of this access.
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