Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals totalled 3,425,126 in January 2019, up by 24.9% year-on-year but down by 4.1% over December 2018. Same-day visitors (1,783,758) surged by 41.8% year-on-year, with those arriving by land soaring by 65.8%; overnight visitors (1,641,368) increased by 10.7%. The average length of stay of visitors dropped by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.2 days on account of a notable growth of 6.2 percentage points in the proportion of same-day visitors (52.1%). Overnight visitors stayed an average of 2.2 days, up by 0.1 day; meanwhile, the average length of stay of same-day visitors held stable at 0.2 day.
Visitors from Mainland China increased by 29.9% year-on-year to 2,504,494, with those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (1,301,406) surging by 45.2%. Mainland visitors came primarily from Guangdong Province (1,143,965), Hunan Province (98,158) and Fujian Province (79,176). Visitors from the Republic of Korea (99,463), Hong Kong (533,740) and Taiwan (86,860) grew by 1.6%, 21.7% and 3.9% respectively year-on-year, and those from the United States (16,509), Australia (11,020), Canada (6,572) and the United Kingdom (4,298) also registered increases. Meanwhile, visitors from the cities in the Greater Bay Area grew notably by 43.6% year-on-year to 1,567,008; besides Hong Kong visitors, those coming from Zhuhai (292,214), Guangzhou (205,521) and Foshan (145,433) rose by 78.3%, 38.1% and 72.9% respectively.
Analysed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by land (2,528,646) in January recorded a substantial growth of 60.3% year-on-year; those arriving through the Border Gate increased by 33.1% to 1,819,447 and those travelling via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge totalled 443,908. Visitor arrivals by air (312,938) rose by 17.9% year-on-year, whereas those by sea (583,542) declined by 35.1%.
Detailed information on visitor arrivals is available in statistical tables and the Statistics Database on the DSEC website (www.dsec.gov.mo).