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Macao's visitor arrivals down 2.6 pct in 2015

Xinhua, January 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

Minor monthly increase of visitor arrivals in December could not offset the figure of the whole year as Macao received over 30.7 million visitors in 2015, 2.6 percent down year-on-year, according to the press release by the region's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) on Friday.

The average length of stay of visitors was 1.1 days in 2015, up by 0.1 day year-on-year, according to the DSEC.

Visitors from the mainland, accounting for 66.5 percent of the total, decreased by 4 percent on yearly basis to 20.41 million. Visitors mainly came from Guangdong Province, followed by Fujian Province and Hunan Province, the data indicated.

Mainland visitors traveling under the Individual Visit Scheme declined by 0.5 percent year-on-year to 9.52 million, with 71.2 percent coming from Guangdong Province and 4.8 percent from Shanghai, the DSEC figure showed.

According to the DSEC, visitors from Hong Kong and Taiwan increased by 1.7 percent and 3.6 percent respectively, while those from the South Korea edged down by 0.1 percent.

Long-haul visitors from the United States and Canada rose marginally, while those from Australia and Britain were down by 12.8 percent and 1.3 percent respectively, said the release.

Due to the drop of the mainland visitors, overnight visitors in 2015 dimmed by 1.8 percent compared with a year earlier, while that from Hong Kong and Taiwan increased by 9.9 percent and 10.0 percent, the DSEC stated.

Overnight visitors accounted for 46.6 percent of the total visitors, up by 0.4 percent with the average stay period added by 0.2 day. Endit