TOURISM INDICATORS

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Government of Macao Special Administrative Region Statistics and Census Service

TOURISM INDICATORS

FEBRUARY/2004

No. 2

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

Statistics and Census Service

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VISITOR ARRIVALS

In February 2004, the total number of visitor arrivals increased by 6.0% over the same period of 2003 to 1,110,569. Visitors mainly came from Mainland China, including those who travelled under the “individual visit” scheme, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Same-day visitors accounted for 51.3% of the total arrivals, with 569,284.

VISITOR ARRIVALS BY PLACE OF RESIDENCE

Feb. Feb. 2004 Feb. Jan.-Feb.

2004 ∆%

Place of

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

Same-day visitors 2003 2004 ∆%

TOTAL 1 047 418 1 110 569 6.03 402 837 655 326 52 406 569 284 14.59 2 034 631 2 444 460 20.14 East Asia 1 011 432 1 077 686 6.55 381 965 645 769 49 952 554 640 15.58 1 963 134 2 374 148 20.94 Mainland China 416 056 659 774 58.58 122 134 528 174 9 466 318 631 132.80 883 576 1 397 732 58.19 Hong Kong 472 308 333 103 -29.47 249 350 82 756 997 166 701 -30.40 842 291 790 817 -6.11 Taiwan 107 583 74 072 -31.15 2 941 32 018 39 113 63 818 -33.04 202 336 160 787 -20.53

Japan 10 124 6 751 -33.32 4 434 2 042 275 3 683 -36.19 23 409 14 909 -36.31

Republic of Korea

5 194 3 770 -27.42 3 066 636 68 1 772 -24.34 11 074 9 447 -14.69

Others 167 216 29.34 40 143 33 35 -49.28 448 456 1.79

South Asia 1 698 1 700 0.12 1 135 466 99 670 -28.72 2 978 3 678 23.51

Southeast Asia 13 421 11 809 -12.01 6 007 4 339 1 463 4 031 -17.60 25 372 26 259 3.50

Americas 8 534 8 060 -5.55 5 192 2 353 515 4 014 -11.04 18 149 17 351 -4.40

Europe 9 091 7 979 -12.23 6 297 1 417 265 4 246 -13.66 17 100 15 535 -9.15

Oceania 2 825 2 924 3.50 2 008 819 97 1 478 0.07 6 961 6 602 -5.16

Others 417 411 -1.44 233 163 15 205 1.99 937 887 -5.34

∆% Year-on-year percentage change

In the first two months of 2004, there were 2,444,460 visitor arrivals, an increase of 20.1% over the same period of last year. Same-day visitors comprised 49.8% of the total arrivals, with 1,216,167.

Compared with the first two months of 2003, the cumulative number of visitors arrivals by sea was 942,828 (+0.4%), among which 918,901 (+0.3%) arrived at the Outer Harbour. Arrivals by land totalled at 1,391,568 (+44.0%), of which 1,318,518 (+42.6%) arrived through the Border Gate and 73,050 through the Checkpoint of CoTai. Arrivals by air were 110,064 (-14.3%), among which 107,874 (-14.7%) arrived at the Macao International Airport.

Visitor arrivals by place of residence

Hong Kong 30.0%

Others 3.9%

Taiwan 6.7%

Mainland China 59.4%