Macau reportedly chalked up an 18.7% growth year-on-year in customer numbers a month as some 3.4 million people travelled to take pleasure in the former Portuguese enclave’s broad selection of stores, hotels and casinos.
Year’s biggest increase:
According to a report by GGRAsia citing official advice from the city’s Statistics and Census Service, the August tally represented the largest 2018 increase since July when the annual tourist number improved by 4 percent year-on-year to achieve marginally in excess of 3 million.
China maintains dominant standing:
The official statistics showed that the number of August traffic to Macau from mainland China had swelled by 25.3% year-on-year to reach only over 2.5 million with the majority of them having journeyed the comparatively short distance from the nearby provinces of Guangdong and Hunan. Therefore, the 31-day tally for people who had travelled to the city using the giant nation’s Individual Visit Scheme exit license system supposedly rose by 31 percent to about 1.3 million.
The Statistics and Census Service observed that August watched Macau article a 5% increase year-on-year in the number of tourists that had arrived from Hong Kong to 556,372 while the figure for people from Taiwan improved by 1.7% to 94,123. The town of several 651,000 people supposedly recorded comparably much better numbers last month regarding people who had visited by the United States, Canada, Australia along with also the United Kingdom although the South Korea tally was 12.6% reduced at 66,052.
Overnight visitation climbs:
The August numbers furthermore suggested that Macau had posted a 16.3% growth year-on-year regarding those who had remained overnight to almost 1.8 million while the same-day visitation number swelled by 21.6% to 1.6 million. On the other hand, the official statistics showed that the average length of stay had dropped by only over 7.6% to stand in 1.2 days.
Eight-month tally improves:
GGRAsia reported that the August figure means that Macau had brought some 23.25 million vacationers since the beginning of 2018, that represented a rise of approximately 8.9% year-on-year. It detailed that this eight-month period also saw mainland China remain as the city’s biggest source of tourists using its 16.4 million tally signifying a 14.2% increase.
Market’s lucrative 2018 month:
All of this helped Macau to capture August aggregated gross gambling revenues of $3.29 billion, which represented a rise of some 17.1% and created the month the city’s lucrative in 2018.
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