A 43 percent surge in same-day visitation boosted visitor arrivals to Macau to 3.4 million in May, a 25.6 percent increase over the same month last year.
The increase pushes the total number of visitors through the first five months of the year to 17.2 million, up 21 percent compared to the first five months of 2018. The number of overnight visitors totaled 7.9 million, up 8.7 percent over January-May 2018. Same-day visitation was up 34 percent to 9.2 million.
The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, which opened late last year, helped boost the number of overland visitors to 2.5 million in May, a 32.2 percent increase year on year. Not surprisingly, ferry traffic decreased by 39.2 to roughly 549,000. Arrivals by air increased by 21.3 percent to approximately 324,000.
Compared with the first four months, May also saw an increase of a couple hours in the average length of stay to 1.2 days, with overnight visitors staying an average of 2.3 days, also a slight increase. The average length of stay of same-day visitors was unchanged at 0.2 days.
