In terms of country, visitors from mainland China spent the most per capita, rising 13.6 % year-on-year, while per capita spending by visitors from Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan grew by 11.6 %, 0.4 % and 1.8 percent year-on-year, respectively.
According to the data, most of the spending was on shopping - at 43.7 %, while accommodation and food & beverage made up of 26.9 % and 21.3 % respectively.
DSEC also informed that visitor arrivals to Macau in April increased 11 % year-on-year to 2.7 million.
Visitors from mainland China increased 7.1 % year-on-year to 1.8 million in the month, with those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme rising 18.5 % in the month.
Visitors from South Korea, and Hong Kong surged 48.7 % and 25.3 % respectively, while visitors from Taiwan fell 2.8 %.
The April arrivals brought total visitor arrivals for the first four months of 2017 to 10.6 million, an increase of 6.9 % year-on-year.