TOURISM INDICATORS

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Government of Macao Special Administrative Region Statistics and Census Service

TOURISM INDICATORS

MARCH/2004

No. 3

Official Statistics. Reproduction of these data is allowed provided the source is quoted.

Statistics and Census Service

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VISITOR ARRIVALS

In March 2004, the total number of visitor arrivals increased 36.0% over the same period of 2003 to 1,306,987. Visitors mainly came from Mainland China (including those who travelled under the

“individual visit” scheme), Hong Kong and Taiwan. Same-day visitors accounted for 49.5% of the total arrivals, with 646,848.

VISITOR ARRIVALS BY PLACE OF RESIDENCE

Mar. Mar. 2004 Mar. Jan.-Mar.

2004 ∆%

Place of

residence ₂₀₀₃ ₂₀₀₄ _∆% _{By sea} _{By land} _{By air}

Same-day visitors 2003 2004 ∆%

TOTAL

960 956 1 306 987 36.01 505 603 740 643 60 741 646 848 43.11 2 995 587 3 751 447 25.23 East Asia 928 864 1 265 963 36.29 479 969 728 492 57 502 629 179 43.88 2 891 998 3 640 111 25.87 Mainland China 454 710 791 789 74.13 197 942 583 513 10 334 360 754 139.99 1 338 286 2 189 521 63.61 Hong Kong 355 685 366 897 3.15 271 140 94 368 1 389 179 238 -3.52 1 197 976 1 157 714 -3.36 Taiwan 105 408 96 686 -8.27 3 492 47 768 45 426 84 150 -10.90 307 744 257 473 -16.34

Japan 10 235 7 289 -28.78 4 863 2 144 282 3 850 -31.76 33 644 22 198 -34.02

Republic of Korea 2 583 3 098 19.94 2 489 560 49 1 148 11.89 13 657 12 545 -8.14

Others 243 204 -16.05 43 139 22 39 -62.14 691 660 -4.49

South Asia 1 317 1 918 45.63 1 306 518 94 719 32.66 4 295 5 596 30.29

Southeast Asia 11 987 15 896 32.61 8 357 5 592 1 947 5 625 31.30 37 359 42 155 12.84

Americas 7 993 9 740 21.86 6 033 3 031 676 4 798 9.42 26 142 27 091 3.63

Europe 7 486 9 389 25.42 7 188 1 856 345 4 576 20.14 24 586 24 924 1.37

Oceania 2 793 3 578 28.11 2 501 938 139 1 712 17.66 9 754 10 180 4.37

Others 516 503 -2.52 249 216 38 239 5.29 1 453 1 390 -4.34

∆% Year-on-year percentage change

In the first quarter of 2004, there were 3,751,447 visitor arrivals, an increase of 25.2% over the same period of last year. There were 672,150 Chinese visitors who travelled under the “individual visit” scheme which accounted for 17.9% of the total arrivals. Same-day visitors made up 49.7% of the total arrivals, with 1,863,015.

Compared with the first quarter of 2003, the number of visitor arrivals by sea was 1,448,431 (+5.3%), among which 1,414,408 (+5.6%) arrived at the Outer Harbour. Arrivals by land totalled at 2,132,211 (+49.0%), of which 2,005,893 (+46.9%) arrived through the Border Gate and 126,318 through the Checkpoint of CoTai.

Arrivals by air were 170,805 (-10.0%), among which 167,474 (-10.4%) arrived at the Macao International Airport.

Visitor arrivals by place of residence

Hong Kong 28.1%

Others 3.9%

Taiwan 7.4%

Mainland China 60.6%