International visitor arrivals to Macau increased by 13.7 percent year-on-year in 2025 to about 2.76 million, accounting for roughly 6.9 percent of the city’s total visitor arrivals, according to data released by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).
DSEC data showed that Macau recorded about 40.1 million visitor arrivals in 2025, representing a 14.7 percent increase compared with the previous year.
Visitors from the Chinese mainland remained the dominant source market, rising 18.5 percent year-on-year to about 29 million. This represented 72.4 percent of total visitor arrivals.
Among mainland visitors, arrivals under the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) reached around 15.4 million, up 25.7 percent year-on-year. Within this segment, about 2.14 million visitors traveled under the “one trip per week” measure introduced in early 2025, while around 781,000 entered under the multiple-entry measure and about 177,000 under the tourist group multi-entry measure.
Visitation from the nine Pearl River Delta cities in the Greater Bay Area increased 23.7 percent year-on-year to about 14.8 million, driven by a 58.1 percent surge in arrivals from Zhuhai following the rollout of the “one trip per week” policy. Arrivals from Hong Kong rose 1.7 percent to about 7.3 million, while visitors from Taiwan increased 19.4 percent to around 1 million.
International markets posted broad-based growth during the year. In Southeast Asia, arrivals from the Philippines rose 9.5 percent year-on-year to about 540,000, while visitors from Thailand increased 38.1 percent to around 186,000.
Northeast Asian markets also expanded, with visitors from South Korea increasing 11.3 percent year-on-year to about 548,000 and those from Japan rising 26.1 percent to around 159,000. Arrivals from the United States increased 9.8 percent year-on-year to about 162,000.
By checkpoint, land arrivals accounted for 82.6 percent of total visitors, at about 33.1 million, up 19.1 percent year-on-year, with particularly strong growth recorded at the Border Gate and Hengqin ports.
