Macau welcomed 11,213,904 visitor arrivals in the first quarter of 2026 (January-March), up 13.7% from a year earlier, according to the Macau government’s Statistics and Census Service.
Same-day visitors rose 20.3% to 7,007,320, while overnight visitors increased 4.1% to 4,206,584.
Average length of stay slipped to 1.0 day from 1.1 days a year earlier. Overnight visitors averaged 2.2 days, unchanged.
By origin, visitors from mainland China climbed 16.4% to 8,388,921, accounting for 74.8% of the total. Of those, independent travelers rose 18.4% to 4,750,197.
Arrivals from Hong Kong edged up 1.8% to 1,783,763. Taiwan posted a sharper gain, up 29.1% to 285,464.
Outside greater China, South Koreans were the largest group, up 7.4% to 184,938. The Philippines followed, up 4.1% to 131,749. Those were the only two markets with more than 100,000 visitors. Japan fell 14.5% to 38,209.
Russia recorded the fastest growth, up 84.5% to 17,654, followed by Thailand, up 70.5% to 59,811.
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