Visitors on package tours to Macao up by 39.6 pct in March

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Visitors on package tours to Macao rose by 39.6 percent year-on-year to 996,000 in March, the special administrative region (SAR)'s statistic service said on Tuesday.

Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that package tour visitors from the Chinese mainland (803,000), China's Taiwan (61,000) and the Hong Kong SAR (20,000) surged by 47.5 percent, 11.3 percent and 47.1 percent respectively, and those from South Korea (63,000) went up by 31.1 percent.

Ruins of St. Paul's in Macao. /VCG Photo

In the first quarter of 2019, there were more than 2.4 million package tour visitors, an increase of 16.5 percent year-on-year.

The number of outbound residents using travel agencies in March 2019 fell 10.1 percent year-on-year to 121,000 as the Easter holiday landed in mid-April this year compared to late March in 2018.

There were 117 hotels and guesthouses operating at the end of March 2019, an increase of two year-on-year. Number of available guest rooms grew by 2.2 percent year-on-year to 39,000, with 5-star hotel rooms rising by 3.1 percent to 24,000 (62.9 percent of total).

(Cover: Macao Tower at sunset. /VCG Photo)

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency