Macau is on the verge of setting a record for the most annual visitors.
The city’s Public Security Police said visitation hit 39.411 million visitors on Saturday, surpassing the record 39.40 million hit in 2019.
Christmas is not a public holiday in Macau’s main tourist feeder market, mainland China, but it is an official holiday period in Hong Kong, the city’s second-largest source of visitors. Dec. 26 also is a public holiday in Hong Kong.
Visitor arrivals from January to November 2025 had already exceeded last year’s total of 34.9 million, according to tourism data.
Visitors from the Chinese mainland accounted for 72.4 percent of total arrivals, while those from Hong Kong represented 18.3 percent. Visitors holding travel documents from outside greater China made up 6.8 percent of the total.
