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Macao Logs 37% in Visitor Arrivals
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2005-3-21 19:55:33
CRIENGLISH.com
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Macao logged a 37 percent year-on-year increase in visitor arrivals in February, which witnessed the Chinese New Year holiday.
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Figures released by the Macao Statistics and Census Bureau on Monday suggested that the number of this year's festival goers from China's mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan to Macao surged by 26.2 percent, 48.7 percent and 64.5 percent respectively, from the same period of last year. The total tally of visitor arrivals reached 1.5 million in February.
China's mainland was the largest source market of tourists to Macao, contributing 54.7 percent of all tourists to Macao. Those coming under the mainland's facilitated individual travel schemes to Macao amounted to 463,550, constituting 55.7 percent of all tourists from the mainland.
The bureau's statistics also suggested that among 2.9 million tourists to Macao in the first two months of this year, 52.4 percent did not stay overnight.
(Source:Xinhua)
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