Macau visitor arrivals up 15.5% in August

Arrivals reached 4.2 million in the eighth month of the year.

Macau.- The Statistics and Census Service of Macau (DSEC) has reported that the number of visitor arrivals to Macau set a new monthly record of 4,219,034 in August 2025, up 15.5 per cent year-on-year. 

Same-day visitors (2,553,316) and overnight visitors (1,665,718) rose by 25.1 per cent and 3.4 per cent year-on-year, respectively. Meanwhile, the average length of stay was steady at 1.1 days. The average duration of stay for same-day visitors (0.3 day) and overnight visitors (2.3 days), both unchanged.

Visitors from the Chinese mainland increased by 18.4 per cent year-on-year to 3,257,874, with those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (1,791,415) rising by 22.2 per cent. Some 204,965 travelled under the “one trip per week measure”, 69,489 under the “multiple-entry measure” and 24,719 under the “tourist group multi-entry measure”.

Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area rose by 23.5 per cent year-on-year to 1,663,188. Visitors from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (681,740) and the Taiwan region (89,057) were up by 2.8 per cent and 21 per cent year-on-year, respectively.

International visitors totalled 190,363, up by 17.3 per cent year-on-year. Visitors from Thailand (13,417) were up by 110.2 per cent, while visitors from the Philippines (38,389), Indonesia (13,371), Malaysia (7,991) and Singapore (6,616) saw increases of 9.1 per cent, 33 per cent, 4.5 per cent and 14 per cent.

Visitors from India (7,804) rose by 1.2 per cent year-on-year. Visitors from Japan (16,630) grew by 57.2 per cent, while those from the Republic of Korea (35,177) dropped by 4.7 per cent. Visitors from the USA (11,755) were up by 14.2 per cent year-on-year.

In the first eight months of 2025, 26,895,940 visitor arrivals were recorded, up by 15 per cent year-on-year; same-day visitors (15,716,961) and overnight visitors (11,178,979) grew by 25.5 per cent and 2.9 per cent respectively. The cumulative average length of stay shortened by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.1 days, due to the growth in the proportion of same-day visitors.

The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) reported that Macau’s gross gaming revenue (GGR) was MOP22.16bn (US$2.76bn) in August, up 12.2 per cent in year-on-year. Cumulatively, Macau’s GGR for the first eight months of 2025 was MOP163.05bn (US$19.11bn), up 7.2 per cent year-on-year. The figure was 11.7 per cent below pre-pandemic levels (MOP198.22bn / US$24.75bn).

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Arrivals reached 4.2 million in the eighth month of the year. Macau.- The Statistics and Census Service of Macau (DSEC) has reported that the number of visitor arrivals to Macau…