In October, Macau welcomed a total of 2,757,308 visitors, reflecting a 19.8 percent increase compared to the previous month. The number of same-day visitors skyrocketed by 444.1 percent year-on-year, reaching 1,451,703, while overnight visitors experienced a notable rise of 316.4 percent, totaling 1,305,605.
March was a very good for hotel occupancy for Macau.
The average length of stay dropped slightly by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.3 days.
During the first ten months of 2023, there was a significant 358.8 percent growth in visitor arrivals compared to the previous year, resulting in a cumulative total of 22,685,476 visitors. The number of overnight visitors exhibited a substantial increase of 460.8 percent, reaching a total of 11,542,405 visitors. Similarly, same-day visitors experienced a significant growth of 286.1 percent, totaling 11,143,071 visitors.
The W Macau hotel tower, receive approval to operate
The GDP growth in Q3 was mainly attributable to the strong performance of service exports, DSEC explained. This was attributable to an 820% year-on-year increase in visitor arrivals to 8.28 million, which was 83.5% of visitation during the same period in 2019. Exports of gaming services and other tourism services expanded by 781.4% and 255.4% respectively.
