Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicated that attributed to the Chinese New Year holidays, total visitor arrivals reached 1,661,393 in January 2006, up 18.5% year-on-year. Visitors from Mainland China and Hong Kong increased 12.4% and 40.3% respectively, whereas those from Taiwan, China decreased 10.8%. Meanwhile, same-day visitors accounted for 52.0% of the total arrivals, at 863,719. The majority of visitors came from Mainland China (55.8% of the total), Hong Kong (31.8%) and Taiwan, China (5.6%). Among the Mainland visitors, 502,423 (54.2%) travelled to Macao under the Individual Visit Scheme. Analyzed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by sea went up 28.7% year-on-year to 611,640 in January 2006, with 576,738 arriving at the Outer Harbour (+25.1%); the majority of these visitors were from Hong Kong (62.1%) and Mainland China (26.3%). Visitor arrivals at the Inner Harbour jumped 146.7% to 34,902 and 61.8% were from Mainland China. In January 2006, visitor arrivals by land increased 14.0% to 971,957. The majority of these visitors came from Mainland China (75.8%) and Hong Kong (17.2%). Visitor arrivals through the Border Gate increased 23.3%. In addition, arrivals by air were 77,796, up 5.7% compared with the same period of last year, with 76,877 arriving at the Macao International Airport (+5.8%). Visitors from Taiwan, China (49.0%) and Mainland China (23.2%) were the major users of this access.
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