Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicated that the number of visitor arrivals totalled 1,921,384 in June 2007, representing a year-on-year increase of 20.3%. Visitors from Hong Kong; Mainland China; and Taiwan, China rose by 27.4%, 13.5% and 4.1% respectively. Meanwhile, same-day visitors accounted for 52.8% of the total arrivals, at 1,013,661. The majority of the visitors came from Mainland China (51.8% of the total), Hong Kong (32.2%) and Taiwan, China (6.3%). Among the Mainland visitors, 41.4% travelled to Macao under the Individual Visit Scheme, at 411,781. In the first half of 2007, visitor arrivals reached 12,640,004, up by 21.3% over the same period of last year. Arrivals from Mainland China rose by 18.5% to 6,905,636, while those from Hong Kong and Taiwan, China went up by 23.9% and 3.1% respectively. Furthermore, same-day visitors made up 52.5% of the total arrivals, at 6,641,016. Analyzed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by sea increased by 13.9% to 4,207,678 over the first half of 2006. Among them, 3,948,540 arrived at the Outer Harbour, with 62.1% from Hong Kong and 23.7% from Mainland China. Visitor arrivals at the Inner Harbour totalled 259,138 and 55.1% were from Mainland China. At the same time, visitor arrivals by land grew by 25.8% to 7,726,568, with 7,656,521 entering through the Border Gate; visitors from Mainland China and Hong Kong accounted for 73.5% and 19.1% respectively. Meanwhile, there were 67,881 visitors arriving through the Checkpoint of CoTai. In addition, arrivals by air totalled 705,758, an increase of 19.8% over the first half of 2006. Among the 699,205 arrivals at the Macao International Airport, visitors from Taiwan, China (45.5%), South East Asia (22.3%) and Mainland China (21.8%) were the major users.
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