Macau visitor tally hits 1.14mln for this year’s October Golden Week

Macau’s visitor tally for this year’s October Golden Week stood at just above 1.14 million, showed data published by Macau’s Public Security Police. The daily average for the reporting period was above 163,320 arrivals, higher than last year’s average of 143,090, which itself had been an October Golden Week record. October Golden Week is a major festive break for Chinese-mainland consumers and a peak trading period for Macau’s casinos. Mainland China is the main feeder market for Macau’s tourism sector. China’s State Council had designated this year’s holiday season on the mainland as running from October 1 to 7, encompassing China’s National Day on October 1. This year’s holiday break was one day shorter than the same period in 2025, when Macau welcomed 1.14 million visitors. The police did not supply a breakdown on holiday-period visitors’ respective place of origin. However, the majority of tourists for the aggregate of the first five days entered Macau via either the Border Gate checkpoint (533,966 arrivals); the Hengqin checkpoint (245,304 arrivals); or the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (157,873 arrivals). Separate information provided by the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) indicated that of the 1.05-million arrivals logged in the first six days of the holiday break, 905,944 were from mainland China. Another 101,947 visitors in the October 1 to 6 period came from Hong Kong, showed the MGTO data. This year there was only a short gap between the Mid-Autumn Festival and the October Golden Week holiday break. Encompassing the two festival periods, Macau received an aggregate of 1.87 million visitors from September 25 to October 7, according to the preliminary data.