Macau records Favorable October visitor numbers

In Macau, this season ’s variant of the ‘Golden Week’ public holiday as well as the following opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge allegedly helped the city to document a 9.2% increase year-on-year in October visitor numbers to 3.15 million.

Substantial month-on-month increase:

According to a report from GGRAsia mentioning official advice from the enclave’s Statistics and Census Service, this last tally countered earlier proposals that the 31-day interval could well-intentioned as it represented a 23.2% increase when compared with that the 2.56 million viewed for the entirety of September.

New bridge demonstrates hot:

GGRAsia noted that October had witnessed some 71,640 tourists use the newly-opened Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge in order to travel the 34 miles from Hong Kong to Macau. Additionally, it cited that the Macao Government Tourism Office in detailing that over 890,000 foreign people had entered the former Portuguese enclave throughout the month’s seven-day ‘Golden Week’ interval, which represented a year-on-year swell of 7.2%.

Chinese significance:

Additionally, October saw the number of visitors in mainland China entering Macau increase by 12.1% year-on-year to around 2.31 million while the tally for people that had utilized the large nation’s Individual Visit Scheme increased by 15.2% to reach about 1.11 million.

Ten-month tally rallies:

For the ten months since the beginning of 2018, Macau allegedly saw visitor arrivals increase by 8.4% year-on-year to stand at 28.97 million together with the source further detailing those from mainland China had accounted for almost 71 percent of this total at 20.53 million, which represented an increase of 13.1%.

Gaming revenues mushroom:

Finally, it noted that all of this assisted Macau to record a 2.6% increase in October aggregated gross gaming revenues to almost $3.38 billion, which represented that the second-highest tally since the same month four decades ago when the last amount had topped $3.47 billion.