Macao receives 10.5 mln visitors in first 7 months - Friday 12th of August 2005
Macao recorded 10.58 million visitor arrivals in the first seven months of this year, up 14.4 percent year-on-year, according to official statistics issued Monday.
The figures from the Statistics and Census Service showed that the number of one-day visitors made up 52.4 percent of all arrivals between January and July.
The special administrative region, in July alone, reported 1.66 million visitor arrivals, a year-on-year rise of 9.3 percent.
The number of visitors from the Chinese mainland made up 54.8 percent of all arrivals, and those from Hong Kong 31.3 percent and Taiwan 8.3 percent.
The city recorded 16.6 million visitor arrivals in 2004, according to the statistics.
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