Macau visitors up 23% in July
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| Article Guide:Figures released by the Statistics and Census Service of the Macau SAR Government indicate that the number of visitor and non-resident arrivals to the region totaled 2.69 million in July 2010. |
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Total visitor arrivals rose by 23.2% year on year to 2.16 million. The number of same-day visitors reached 1.11 million, accounting for 51.2% of the total visitor arrivals, with 578,189 coming from mainland China.
The statistics service also said that total number of visitor arrivals reached 14.39 million in the first seven months of 2010, up by 18.7% year on year, with the majority of visitors coming from mainland China. Same-day visitors accounted for 51.8% of the total visitor arrivals, at 7,455,329 over the seven month period.
Analyzed by place of residence, the number of visitors from mainland China increased by 34% from a year earlier to 1.14 million, accounting for 52.8% of the total number of visitor arrivals, with 477,119 travelling to Macau under the Individual Visit Scheme: up by 40.3% from July 2009. Visitor numbers from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and the Republic of Korea rose by 15.4%, 3.5%, 28.4% and 40.1% to 670, 953, 121,273, 32,892 and 28, 590 respectively.
