In January 2024, the number of inbound tourists to Macau increased by double compared to the previous year, reaching 2.8616 million people.

According to data from the Statistics and Census Bureau of Macao, the number of inbound tourists in January this year increased by 1.0 times year-on-year to 2.861609 million, recovering to 83.5% of the same period in 2019; compared with December 2023, it decreased by 2.8%. However, overnight tourists (about 1.4801 million) and overnight tourists (about 1.3815 million) increased by 1.5 times and 69.3% respectively year-on-year. The average length of stay for tourists was 1.2 days, a decrease of 0.4 days year-on-year; the average length of stay for overnight tourists (2.2 days) decreased by 0.4 days, and for non-overnight tourists (0.2 days) also decreased by 0.1 days. In terms of visitor sources, in January, the number of mainland Chinese tourists increased by 1.1 times year-on-year to 2.0561 million, with individual tourists (about 1.1162 million) increasing by 57.8%. The number of tourists from the nine cities in the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao increased by 68.6% to 1.0255 million, with tourists from Hong Kong (about 546,300) and Taiwan (59,921) increasing by 53.0% and 2.2 times year-on-year, respectively. In January, mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan visitors recovered to 82.1%, 102.3%, and 69.0% of the same period in 2019. There were about 199,300 international visitors in January, recovering to 66.4% of the same period in 2019. In the Southeast Asian market, Filipino tourists (34,102) increased by 24.3% compared to January 2019, surpassing the level of the same period in 2019, while Indonesian (13,961), Thai (13,608), and Malaysian (10,997) tourists recovered to 86.9%, 93.1%, and 66.2% of the same period in 2019, respectively. Korean (50,552) and Japanese (10,646) tourists from Northeast Asia recovered to 50.8% and 34.8% of the same period in 2019, while long-haul tourists from the United States (10,922) recovered to 66.2%. According to the inbound channel statistics, in January, a total of 2,265,185 tourists entered by land, an increase of 96.5% year-on-year, of which tourists entering through the border checkpoint (about 1.1151 million), Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (about 670,800), and Hengqin port (about 337,800) accounted for 49.2%, 29.6%, and 14.9% respectively; the number of tourists entering by sea (about 352,600) and by air (about 243,900) increased by 1.4 times and 1.6 times year-on-year respectively.