MrV
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October 25th, 2013 at 8:28:20 AM permalink
Do many non-Chinese people visit and gamble at the casinos in Macao, or is it pretty much all Chinese?

Related question: Do many big "whales" frequent Macao, as they did Las Vegas in its prime?
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pacomartin
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October 25th, 2013 at 1:39:47 PM permalink
I would say it is not very cosmopolitan. Half people don't spend the night.
In September 90.8% of visitors from Hong Kong, Taiwan or mainland China
Long-haul visitors from the UK, US, Australia and Canada were only 1.4% of the total.

It should be noted that Las Vegas does not get more than about 15% of it's visitors from International destinations, but they spend a disproportionate amount of money compared to domestic tourists. I doubt that is true in Macau since it is mostly gaming income. I imagine most of the foreign tourists are looky-loos.

Gaming revenue in Macau is now $123m/day while it is just over $17m/day on LV strip.

Quote: Government of Macau Special Administrative Region Statistics and Census Service


Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals increased by 7.9% year-on-year to
2,332,325 in September 2013; same-day visitors accounted for 50.5% of the total, at
1,178,340.

In September 2013, visitors from Mainland China increased by 19.6% year-on-year to
1,502,723, coming primarily from Guangdong Province (585,027) and Zhejiang Province (62,990); Mainland visitors travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme totalled 589,667.

Moreover, visitors from the
Republic of Korea (37,776) increased by 15.9%, while those from
Hong Kong (523,105);
Taiwan, China (91,714) and
Japan (25,516)
decreased by 10.1%, 5.6% and 27.7%.

Long-haul visitors from the UK (4,804) increased by 3.6% year-on-year, whereas those from the US (12,926), Australia (9,634) and Canada (5,379) decreased by 5.6%, 4.8% and 14.0% respectively.

The average length of stay of visitors held stable from a year earlier, at 1.0 day in September 2013; overnight and same-day visitors stayed an average of 1.9 days and 0.2 day respectively.

Visitor arrivals totalled 7,768,583 in the third quarter of 2013, up by 6.6% year-on-year. In the first three quarters of 2013, visitor arrivals totalled 21,910,823, an increase of 5.0% year-on-year. Visitors from Mainland China and the Republic of Korea increased by 12.0% and 5.8% respectively, while those from Hong Kong and Taiwan, China decreased by 4.5% and 9.5%. Long-haul visitors from the US (128,263), Australia (78,480) and Canada (52,409) saw year-on-year decline; on the contrary, those from the UK (43,597) registered year-on-year increase



http://en.macautourism.gov.mo/index.php
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