Information from Statistics and Census Service showed that visitor arrivals reached 1,773,926 in February 2006, corresponding to a year-on-year increase of 16.5%. As the Chinese New Year holidays continued until the beginning of February, visitors from Mainland China totalled 1,006,275, up 20.9%; visitors from Hong Kong also grew considerably by 10.4%, whereas those form Taiwan, China dropped 8.1%. Meanwhile, same-day visitors accounted for 52.9% of the total arrivals, at 939,089. Visitors came mainly from Mainland China (56.7% of the total), Hong Kong (30.8%) and Taiwan, China (6.3%). Among those from Mainland China, 565,315 (56.2%) arrived in Macao under the Individual Visit Scheme. In the first two months of 2006, the cumulative number of visitor arrivals totalled 3,435,319, a year-on-year increase of 17.5%. Mainland visitors rose 16.7% to 1,934,002, which accounted for 56.3% of the total; those from Hong Kong and Taiwan, China shared 31.3% and 6.0% respectively. Furthermore, same-day visitors made up 52.5% of the total, at 1,802,808. Analyzed by mode of transport, visitors arrived by sea surged 20.5% to 1,263,183 in the first two months of 2006, with 1,192,708 arriving at the Outer Harbour (+17.2%) and the majority of these visitors were from Hong Kong (59.8%) and Mainland China (29.6%). Visitor arrivals at the Inner Harbour leaped 130.3% to 70,475 while 62.4% were from Mainland China. At the same time, visitors arriving by land through the Border Gate rose 16.1% to 1,992,151. The majority of the visitors came from Mainland China (75.3%) and Hong Kong (17.8%). In addition, visitor arrivals by air were 179,985, up 12.1% compared with the same period of last year, with 178,010 arrived at the Macao International Airport (+12.0%). Visitors from Taiwan, China (53.5%) and Mainland China (20.9%) were the major users of this access.
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