Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that, under the prevention and control measures imposed in different places against the pandemic of novel coronavirus pneumonia, visitor arrivals to Macao in February 2021 dropped by 23.3% month-to-month to 427,122; however, the figure represented an uplift of 173.1% year-on-year as the pandemic spread in February last year. Overnight visitors (245,309) and same-day visitors (181,813) soared by 225.8% and 124.2% year-on-year respectively in February. The average length of stay of visitors shortened by 0.9 day year-on-year to 1.9 days; the duration for overnight visitors (3.2 days) went down by 2.2 days, whereas that for same-day visitors (0.1 day) remained unchanged.

In terms of source of visitors, number of Mainland visitors leapt by 426.4%   year-on-year to 380,649, with those travelling under the Individual Visit Scheme (163,157) escalating by 2,702.4%. Visitors from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area totalled 240,933, of whom 106,452 (44.2% of total) came from Zhuhai. Meanwhile, there were 40,037 visitors from Hong Kong and 6,410 from Taiwan.

Analysed by checkpoint, visitor arrivals by land in February surged by 211.2% year-on-year to 393,625, and 309,890 (78.7%) of them arrived through the Border Gate. Visitor arrivals by sea grew by 43.5% year-on-year to 13,064, whereas those by air fell by 1.7% to 20,433.

In the first two months of 2021, number of visitor arrivals declined by 67.3% year-on-year to 983,887. Number of overnight visitors (514,256) and same-day visitors (469,631) shrank by 63.1% and 70.9% year-on-year respectively. The average length of stay of visitors went up by 0.4 day year-on-year to 1.7 days, with that of overnight visitors (3.1 days) rising by 0.6 day while that of same-day visitors (0.1 day) decreasing by 0.1 day.