Macau recorded around 248,000 visitor arrivals on Saturday, the second day of the Chinese mainland’s ongoing five-day Labour Day holiday period, once again setting a new record of a single-day number of visitor arrivals, Public Security Police (PSP) have announced.
According to a PSP statement released on its WeChat account on Sunday, the new record represented a 9.25 percent increase from the previous record set on February 19 this year, the third day of the Chinese New Year of the Horse, when over 227,000 visitor arrivals were recorded.
Visitor arrivals from the Chinese mainland accounted for 85 percent of the around 248,000 visitor arrivals recorded on Saturday, while those from Hong Kong, the Taiwan region, and foreign countries respectively made up 10, one, and four percent of the total, the PSP statement said.
According to historical data from the Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO), the previous record of single-day number of visitor arrivals set on the third day of the Year of the Horse (227,917) had itself broken the preceding record set on the third day of the Year of the Pig in pre-pandemic 2019, at 226,326.
The ongoing five-day Labour Day holiday period started on Friday and ends tonight.
According to PSP daily immigration statistics released during the period, Macau recorded 203,006 on the first day of this year’s five-day Labour Day holiday period, 247,729 on the second day, and 182,216 on the third day.
Macau logs daily record of 889,000 border crossings
Meanwhile, Sunday’s PSP statement also announced that Macau recorded 889,000 entries and exits at its border checkpoints on Saturday, also setting a new record of a single-day number of border crossings, breaking the previous record of 867,000 set on February 7 this year.
According to the statement, the number of border crossings at the Barrier Gate checkpoint on Saturday accounted for 50.6 percent of the total, while the Hengqin checkpoint, the Qingmao checkpoint, and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge’s (HZMB) Macau checkpoint respectively made up 16.6 percent, 15.0 percent, and 11.0 percent.
The entry and exit (border crossings) figures recorded by the Public Security Police, which run Macau’s immigration service, comprise local residents, visitors, non-resident workers (NRWs), non-local students enrolled in Macau, and all others with a special permit to stay in Macau.
On Saturday, according to Sunday’s PSP statement, local residents accounted for 27.5 percent of the total number of border crossings at all checkpoints, while non-resident workers and visitors respectively made up 17.4 percent and 53.4 percent.
The statement also said that Macau’s border-crossing figures on Saturday also broke another type of record, when the Macau-Hengqin joint checkpoint recorded nearly 148,000 entries and exits, 693 border crossers more than the previous record of around 147,000 set on New Year’s Day this year.
A Tourist Police officer (centre) works among the crowds of visitors in front of the Ruins of St. Paul’s landmark yesterday, one of Macau’s most popular tourist attractions. – Photo: Tony Wong
