Visitor arrivals for August 2015

Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicated that visitor arrivals totalled 3,033,081 in August 2015, up by 14.5% month-to-month yet down by 1.7% year-on-year. Same-day visitors totalled 1,608,385 (53.0% of total), down by 3.5% year-on-year; overnight visitors rose slightly by 0.4% to 1,424,696. The average length of stay of visitors increased by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.1 days; the average stay of same-day visitors remained unchanged at 0.2 day while that of overnight visitors rose by 0.2 day to 2.1 days. Visitors from Mainland China decreased by 1.7% year-on-year to 2,095,013, with those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme dropping by 1.0% to 1,053,157. Visitors from Mainland China came primarily from Guangdong Province (979,764), Hunan Province (90,429) and Fujian Province (90,260). Visitors from Hong Kong (640,583) and Taiwan (91,378) increased by 0.8% and 3.5% year-on-year respectively, while those from the Republic of Korea (43,710) declined by 24.8%. Long-haul visitors from the United States (12,838), Australia (5,584), the United Kingdom (5,193) and Canada (4,977) showed year-on-year decrease. Analyzed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by land increased by 1.0% year-on-year to 1,718,536; visitors arriving via the Border Gate (1,501,745) decreased slightly by 0.5%, while those arriving via the Checkpoint of Cotai (214,313) rose by 14.1%. Visitor arrivals by sea totalled 1,125,588, a year-on-year decrease of 6.7%, with those arriving via the Outer Habour (666,192) and the Provisional Ferry Terminal in Taipa (427,685) dropping by 7.6% and 1.7% respectively. Moreover, visitor arrivals by air rose by 5.9% year-on-year to 188,957, of which those entering via Macau International Airport rose by 6.2% to 187,973, accounting for 99.5% of the total. In the first eight months of 2015, visitor arrivals totalled 20,438,474, down by 3.2% year-on-year; same-day visitors (11,101,798) and overnight visitors (9,336,676) decreased by 1.8% and 4.9% respectively. Visitors from Mainland China (13,636,972) decreased by 4.1% year-on-year, while those from Hong Kong (4,381,871), Taiwan (650,318) and the Republic of Korea (374,323) rose marginally by 0.6%, 0.5% and 0.2% respectively. Moreover, long-haul visitors from the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom recorded year-on-year decrease.