Macau 1st Half 2008 Tourism Numbers

Filed Under Macau, Macao, Statistics, TOURISM

Macau put out its first half of 2008 visitation numbers. The gaming revenue numbers is what always seems to make the headlines (and it should cause they’re huge numbers), but Im always more interested to see who is visiting Macao and how they’re getting there:

In the first half year of 2008, visitor arrivals reached 14,925,604, up by 18.1% year-on-year. Visitors from Mainland China (8,776,232) and Southeast Asia surged by 27.1% and 56.6% respectively, but those from Hong Kong dropped by 1.4%. Same-day visitors shared 52.9% of the total visitor arrivals, at 7,902,844.

Analyzed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by sea went up by 10.3% over the same period of 2007 to 4,642,221. Among them, 4,139,005 arrived at the Outer Harbour (+4.8%), with 57.8% from Hong Kong and 22.4% from Mainland China.

Visitor arrivals by land grew by 22.1% to 9,431,951. Visitors arriving through the Border Gate increased by 16.5% to 8,921,747 and the majority were visitors from Mainland China (79.5%) and Hong Kong (14.3%).

In addition, visitor arrivals by air totalled 851,432, up by 20.6% over the same period of 2007. Visitors arriving at the Macao International Airport rose by 19.4% to 834,575 and the main users were visitors from Taiwan, China (35.4%), Southeast Asia (31.0%) and Mainland China (21.1%).

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