MACAU STATISTICS AND CENSUS DEPARTMENT
TOURISM INDICATORS
MARCH/98
Nº3 VISITOR MOVEMENT
The number of visitor arrivals in Macau, by different modes of transport, was 578,181 in March 1998 which showed a sign of decrease when compared with the same month of 1997.
In the first three months of 1998, there was a total number of 1,784,117 visitors arrived by sea (through Outer Harbour and Pier No. 14), by land and by air, represented a decrease of 10.9% over the same period of 1997.
In the period of analysis, visitor arrivals by sea (through Outer Harbour) recorded a decrease of 12.9%, at 1,218,284 over the same period of 1997. Visitor arrivals by air totalled at 116,712, represented a decrease of 6.6%. The number of visitor arrivals through the Macau International Airport decreased by 5.9% over the same period of last year, at 111,924.
There were 412,028 visitors arrived by land, equivalent to a decrease of 2.5% over the same period of 1997.
VISITOR ARRIVALS BY DIFFERENT MODES OF TRANSPORT - BY NATIONALITY
BY BY BY MAR. MAR. VARIATION JAN.-MAR. JAN.-MAR. VARIATION
NATIONALITY SEA AIR LAND 1998 1997 (%) 1998 1997 (%)
TOTAL 403,892 39,439 134,850 578,181 713,476 -18.96 1,784,117 2,001,942 -10.88
EAST ASIA 366,842 35,949 124,202 526,993 621,509 -15.21 1,631,956 1,760,593 -7.31
S. KOREA 1,365 44 245 1,654 10,109 -83.64 4,965 35,457 -86.00
TAIWAN 4,968 32,033 27,735 64,736 73,547 -11.98 186,195 217,994 -14.59
HONG KONG 315,861 1,783 78,833 396,477 439,871 -9.87 1,251,052 1,221,176 2.45
JAPAN 9,365 757 1,971 12,093 43,522 -72.21 34,799 124,119 -71.96
P.R.CHINA 35,283 1,300 15,309 51,892 54,242 -4.33 154,534 161,317 -4.20
OTHERS 0 32 109 141 218 -35.32 411 530 -22.45
SE ASIA 5,549 1,197 1,870 8,616 17,827 -51.67 27,069 51,525 -47.46
PHILIPPINES 1,347 271 682 2,300 3,722 -38.21 7,373 10,521 -29.92
INDONESIA 318 25 28 371 963 -61.47 1,581 4,155 -61.95
MALAYSIA 1,135 130 479 1,744 4,220 -58.67 5,390 12,098 -55.45
SINGAPORE 1,196 209 362 1,767 3,728 -52.60 5,484 8,110 -32.38
THAILAND 1,380 533 259 2,172 4,966 -56.26 6,416 16,047 -60.02
OTHERS 173 29 60 262 228 14.91 825 594 38.89
AMERICAS 6,639 624 2,009 9,272 14,243 -34.90 26,395 35,884 -26.44
EUROPE 11,584 1,370 1,819 14,773 33,589 -56.02 41,825 83,918 -50.16
OCEANIA 3,274 106 547 3,927 5,505 -28.66 9,960 13,344 -25.36
OTHERS 10,004 193 4,403 14,600 20,803 -29.82 46,912 56,678 -17.23
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