Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that number of visitor arrivals surged by 97.7% month-to-month to 449,085 in September 2020, attributable to the resumption of exit endorsements for Mainland residents to travel to Macao in late September; however, the figure still represented a decline of 83.8% year-on-year. Same-day visitors and overnight visitors totalled 289,474 and 159,611 respectively. On account of an increase of 14.2 percentage points in the proportion of same-day visitors (64.5%), the average length of stay of visitors went down by 0.3 day year-on-year to 1.0 day in September. The duration for same-day visitors (0.1 day) shortened by 0.1 day year-on-year, whereas that for overnight visitors (2.7 days) rose by 0.3 day.
In terms of source of visitors, number of Mainland visitors fell by 78.6% year-on-year to 412,451; those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme totalled 90,100, and 91.9% of them came from Guangdong Province. Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area added up to 250,996, of whom 134,798 came from Zhuhai. Meanwhile, there were 33,115 visitors from Hong Kong and 3,515 from Taiwan.
Analysed by checkpoint, visitor arrivals by land totalled 439,446 in September, and 364,288 (82.9%) of them arrived through the Border Gate. There were 5,260 visitor arrivals by sea as passenger ferry services between Macao and Shekou, Shenzhen, at the Outer Harbour and the Taipa Ferry Terminal were resumed in September. Besides, a total of 4,379 visitors arrived by air.
In the first three quarters of 2020, number of visitor arrivals declined by 86.7% year-on-year to 4,019,104. Same-day visitors (2,219,383) and overnight visitors (1,799,721) slid by 86.1% and 87.4% respectively year-on-year. The average length of stay of visitors went up by 0.2 day year-on-year to 1.4 days, with that of overnight visitors (2.8 days) rising by 0.6 day while that of same-day visitors (0.2 day) staying unchanged. Visitors from mainland China (3,019,362), Hong Kong (715,292) and Taiwan (89,276) recorded year-on-year decreases of more than 80%.
