Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals decreased by 47.8% month-on-month to 328,245 in October 2021 on account of the tightening of cross-boundary measures between Zhuhai and Macao in early to mid-October; the figure also represented a drop of 43.6% year-on-year. Numbers of same-day visitors (216,829) and overnight visitors (111,416) fell by 20.8% and 63.9% year-on-year respectively. Meanwhile, the average length of stay of visitors went up by 0.9 day year-on-year to 2.3 days, with that of overnight visitors (7.2 days) increasing by 4.5 days as some visitors extended their stay in Macao in the face of quarantine measures imposed on individuals entering Zhuhai from Macao in early to mid-October. On the other hand, the average length of stay of same-day visitors (0.1 day) remained unchanged.
In terms of source of visitors, number of Mainland visitors slid by 44.2% year-on-year to 300,996, with 64,097 of them travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme. Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area totalled 184,662, of whom 67.4% came from Zhuhai. Besides, there were 24,403 visitors from Hong Kong and 2,809 from Taiwan.
Analysed by checkpoint, number of visitor arrivals by land decreased by 42.8% year-on-year to 310,841 in October. Among them, 82.9% arrived through the checkpoint of Border Gate, whereas 10.4% came via the Hengqin port and 4.3% through the checkpoint of Qingmao. Meanwhile, visitor arrivals by air and by sea totalled 11,843 and 5,561 respectively.
In the first ten months of 2021, number of visitor arrivals grew by 32.2% year-on-year to 6,083,773. Overnight visitors (3,015,076) and same-day visitors (3,068,697) increased by 43.0% and 23.1% year-on-year respectively. The average length of stay of visitors rose by 0.2 day year-on-year to 1.6 days; the duration for overnight visitors (3.2 days) lengthened by 0.4 day whereas that for same-day visitors (0.1 day) decreased by 0.1 day.