Macau, April 23 (Reporter Fu Zimei) Data from the Macau Special Administrative Region Statistics and Census Bureau showed that in the first quarter of this year, a total of 9862,665 passengers entered Macau, an increase of 11.1% year-on-year, and the average stay of passengers was 1.1 days. Among them, a total of 3068,920 inbound passengers in March, an increase of 12.8% year-on-year.
By customer source analysis, the number of mainland Chinese tourists in the first quarter was 7206,035, an increase of 14.5% year-on-year. Among them, there were 4011,208 individual tourists, an increase of 15.6%. Passengers entering the country through "one trip per week", "one sign and multiple trips" and "group entry and exit" were 381,172, 97,957 and 28,671 respectively. Zhuhai's passengers increased by 50.3% year-on-year. The number of tourists in the nine cities in the Pearl River Delta of the Greater Bay Area was 358,2016, an increase of 18.8%. There were 221,146 passengers in Taiwan, an increase of 21.6% over the same period last year; the number of passengers in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region was 1753,042, a decrease of 3.6%.
In the first quarter, there were 682,442 international passengers, an increase of 16.9% year-on-year. In terms of Southeast Asian market, there were 126,559 Filipino passengers, 53,643 Filipino passengers, 47,094 Filipino passengers, and 26,356 Filipino passengers, an increase of 10.4%, 36.5%, 18.2% and 2.8% year-on-year respectively. There were 35,073 tourists in Thailand, a decrease of 9.2%. There were 19,135 Indian passengers from South Asia, a year-on-year decrease of 3.4%. South Korean tourists in Northeast Asia were 172,255 and 44,663 in Japan, up 33% and 23.6% respectively. Among the long-distance passengers, there were 36,629 American passengers, an increase of 9.7% year-on-year.
According to entry channels, 8100,541 people were circulating by land in the first quarter, accounting for 82.1%, an increase of 15.4% year-on-year. Among them, the number of passengers entering the country through Guanzha Port and Hengqin Port both increased by more than 20% year-on-year. There were 743,014 people passing through the air road, accounting for 7.5%, an increase of 0.9% year-on-year. Jinghai Road had 1019,110 people, accounting for 10.3%, a year-on-year decrease of 8.9%.
