In May, the tally of overnight visitors and same-day visitors declined respectively by over 99% from a year earlier, to 9,115 and 7,018 respectively.
In terms of source markets, the number of mainland Chinese visitors declined by 99.4% year-on-year in May to 14,793, with the number of those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) down 100% to only 76.
In May, the tally of visitors from Hong Kong fell by 99.8% from the prior-year period, to 1,184, said the statistics bureau. Those from Taiwan fell by 99.8% year-on-year to only 152 during the same month.
In the first five months of 2020, visitor arrivals to Macau totalled nearly 3.25 million, down 81.1% year-on-year. Of that visitor tally, an aggregate of 1.71 million were same-day visitors and another 1.54 million were overnight visitors.
Source: GMB / GGR Asia
