Information from Statistics and Census Service showed that the number of visitor arrivals totalled 1,522,590 in February 2005, which represented a year-on-year increase of 37.1%. Visitors from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, China increased 26.2%, 48.7% and 64.5% respectively compared with February last year, due to the fact that the Chinese New Year holiday was in February in 2005. Meanwhile, same-day visitors accounted for 52.4% of the total arrivals, at 797,143. Visitors came mainly from Mainland China (54.7% of the total), Hong Kong (32.5%) and Taiwan, China (8.0%). Among those from Mainland China, 463,550 (55.7%) arrived in Macao under the Individual Visit Scheme. In the first two months of 2005, visitor arrivals totalled 2,924,029, up 19.6% over the same period of last year. Arrivals from Mainland China increased 18.6% to 1,657,748, which accounted for 56.7% of the total; Hong Kong and Taiwan, China shared 29.8% and 7.7% respectively. Furthermore, same-day visitors made up 52.4% of the total, at 1,532,009. Analyzed by mode of transport, visitors arrived by sea went up 11.1% to 1,047,896 in the first two months of 2005, with 1,017,292 arriving at the Outer Harbour (+10.7%) and the majority of these visitors were from Hong Kong (59.0%) and Mainland China (30.2%). Visitor arrivals at the Inner Harbour rose 27.9% to 30,604 while 70.5% were from Mainland China. At the same time, arrivals by land soared 23.3% to 1,715,556, with 1,588,003 arriving through the Border Gate. The majority of the visitors came from Mainland China (77.5%) and Hong Kong (16.2%). Meanwhile, there were 127,553 visitors arriving through the Checkpoint of CoTai. In addition, arrivals by air were 160,577, up 45.9% compared with the same period of last year, with 158,982 arrived at the Macao International Airport (+47.4%). Visitors from Taiwan, China (68.4%) and Mainland China (16.7%) were the major users of this access.
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