Benefited from the National Day holidays, the number of visitor arrivals reached 2,430,414 in October 2007, representing a year-on-year increase of 22.1%. Visitors from Mainland China and Hong Kong rose by 28.9% and 8.1% respectively, whereas those from Taiwan, China dropped by 5.5%. Meanwhile, same-day visitors accounted for 52.7% of the total arrivals, at 1,280,949.

The majority of the visitors came from Mainland China (56.3% of the total), Hong Kong (28.5%) and Taiwan, China (5.0%). Among the Mainland visitors, 46.4% travelled to Macao under the Individual Visit Scheme, at 634,417.

In the first ten months of 2007, visitor arrivals reached 21,926,427, up by 22.6% over the same period of last year. Visitors from Mainland China grew by 23.0% to 12,022,644; arrivals from Hong Kong went up by 20.5%, whereas those from Taiwan, China dropped slightly by 0.3%. Furthermore, same-day visitors made up 52.2% of the total arrivals, at 11,453,650.

Analyzed by mode of transport, visitor arrivals by sea increased by 16.3% to 7,272,873 over the first ten months of 2006. Among them, 6,874,894 arrived at the Outer Harbour, with 61.5% from Hong Kong and 23.4% from Mainland China. Visitor arrivals at the Inner Harbour totalled 397,979 and 52.4% were from Mainland China.

At the same time, visitor arrivals by land grew by 26.8% to 13,464,068, with 13,148,980 entering through the Border Gate; visitors from Mainland China and Hong Kong accounted for 74.0% and 18.9% respectively. Meanwhile, there were 308,409 visitors arriving through the Checkpoint of CoTai.

In addition, arrivals by air totalled 1,189,486, an increase of 17.7% over the first ten months of 2006. Among the 1,181,558 arrivals at the Macao International Airport, visitors from Taiwan, China (45.1%), Southeast Asia (22.2%) and Mainland China (21.9%) were the major users.

Source: Statistics and Census Service

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