Figures just in for June, according to the Statistics and Census Service, show a year-on-year 8% increase in visitor arrivals to 16.8 million during the first half of 2018.
The statistics are pointing to a successful year of tourism for Macau.
Figures just in for June, according to the Statistics and Census Service, show a year-on-year 8% increase in visitor arrivals to 16.8 million during the first half of 2018.
Looking at overnight visitors, arrivals are up 8.3% to 8.76 million, while same-day visitors increased 7.8% to 8.04 million.
The average length of stay remained the same at 1.2 days.
Looking at June specifically, the statistics report total arrivals at 2.6 million, a rise of 9.4% year-on-year.
Of these, 1.44 were overnight visitors increasing 7.2% over June 2017, 1.15 million were day visitors, with a leap of 12.4%.
The average length of stay remained the same, year-on-year, at 1.3 days, as did same-day visitors at 0.2 days, while a slight increase took overnight visitor length of stay to 2.2.
Although visitors from South Korea dropped by 13.4%, those from mainland China rose 13.5% to 1.75 million.
Hong Kong visitors showed a small increase of 2% to 501,000, while Taiwan’s growth was a healthy 7.8% to 92,000.
Long-haul markets the US and the UK showed slight growth, while Australia and Canada fell marginally.
Air arrivals were up a significant 24.7%, while land arrivals rose 12.1% and sea arrivals just 1.4% for June, year-on-year.