Visitor Arrivals for May 2009

Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicated that the total number of visitor and non-resident arrivals was 2,205,208 in May 2009. Affected by the adverse impact of the human swine influenza pandemic, visitor arrivals for May 2009 dropped by 20.4% year-on-year to 1,591,500. Analysed by place of residence, visitors from Mainland China were 791,394 (49.7% of total visitor arrivals), a year-on-year decrease of 26.8%, with 316,111 travelling to Macao under the Individual Visit Scheme, down drastically by 50.9% from May 2008 (644,051). Visitors from Hong Kong (489,129); Taiwan, China (97,976); Malaysia (26,730) and Japan (26,355) also decreased by 8.8%, 12.3%, 42.3% and 9.9% respectively. Same-day visitors (883,559) accounted for 55.5% of the total visitor arrivals, with 457,502 coming from Mainland China. The cumulative visitor arrivals totalled 8,912,874 in the first five months of 2009, down by 10.6% year-on-year. Visitors from Mainland China (4,447,039); Taiwan, China (528,171) and Malaysia (136,142) decreased by 16.6%, 5.8% and 30.3%, while those from Hong Kong (2,834,335) and Japan (150,290) registered slight increase of 0.4% and 8.8% respectively. Cumulative number of same-day visitors accounted for 53.8% of the total visitor arrivals, at 4,791,977. Analysed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by sea totalled 3,640,617 in the first five months of 2009, down by 2.5% year-on-year. Visitors arriving at the Outer Harbour decreased by 25.8% to 2,482,693, but those arriving at the Provisional Ferry Terminal in Taipa surged by 405.0% to 1,030,868. Visitor arrivals by land dropped by 16.4% year-on-year to 4,627,706 in the first five months of 2009; those arriving through the Border Gate totalled 4,292,081 and the majority were visitors from Mainland China (76.0%) and Hong Kong (15.6%). Visitor arrivals by air went down by 8.2% year-on-year to 644,551 in the first five months of 2009. Visitors arriving at the Macao International Airport decreased by 8.0% to 633,396, with the majority coming from Taiwan, China (38.2%) and Mainland China (23.8%).
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