Visitor arrivals to China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) in April 2017 increased by 11 percent year-on-year, or 9.7 percent month-to-month, with overnight visitors rising by 17.7 percent, the SAR's statistics service said on Tuesday.
Latest report from Macao SAR Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) said visitor arrivals in April reached 2.7 million.
Overnight visitors (1,441,162) and same-day visitors (1,301,637) went up by 17.7 percent and 4.4 percent respectively year-on-year. The average length of visitors' stay rose by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.2 days, while overnight visitors and same-day visitors stayed an average of 2.1 days and 0.2 day respectively.
The DSEC data showed that visitors from Chinese mainland increased by 7.1 percent year-on-year to 1.77 million in April, mainly from Guangdong Province (725,648) and Hu'nan Province (87,911). Visitors from South Korea (64,924) and China's Hong Kong SAR (608,879) surged by 48.7 percent and 25.3 percent respectively.
In the first four months of 2017, visitor arrivals totaled 10.6 million, up by 6.9 percent year-on-year.
