Nearly 1.31 million visitors called at Macau during the eight-day Spring Festival Golden Week, which ran from January 28 to February 4, 2025, with the average daily visitor number standing at 163,696 – 3.5 per cent shy of what was recorded during the 2024 Golden Week.
Arrivals from China made up the bulk. The daily average of Chinese visitors was 125,000, a slight decrease of 3.2 per cent from that of 2024 (129,204).
The overall and average daily volumes of Hong Kong visitors were 231,000 and nearly 29,000 respectively.
The overall and average daily volumes of visitors from Taiwan were 20,000 and 2,500 respectively.
As for international visitor arrivals, the overall number was 58,000 while the daily average neared 7,300, a year-on-year rise of 10.2 per cent.
Single-day visitor arrivals trended upward from January 29 to 31, during the initial and most important days of the Chinese New Year, peaking at over 219,000 on the third day. Arrivals on the fourth day of the holiday rose 9.1 per cent over the same time in 2024.
Data submitted from industry operators showed that local hotel establishments had an average occupancy rate of 95 per during the Spring Festival Golden Week, the same as last year. The hotel occupancy rate peaked at 97.8 per cent on the fourth day of Chinese New Year.
The average room rate of across Macau’s hotel establishments (including hotels, apartment hotels and economical accommodation establishments) was around 1,839.5 patacas (US$229.20) during the Golden Week, a year-over-year drop of 2.4 per cent.
