Official source
DSEC’s Time Series Database, indicator 14023: total visitor arrivals under “By Mode of Transport”. DSEC compiles arrivals supplied by the Public Security Police Force.
Macau / Tourism
Visitor arrivals to Macau
A long view of travel to Macau, drawn from official annual statistics.
Explore the series
Visitor arrivalsLoading the retained DSEC snapshot…
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Source & methodology
Measure & coverage
Each point is an official calendar-year total, in number of arrivals. A person making multiple trips can be counted more than once. The chart axis uses millions; the table and CSV retain exact counts.
The snapshot contains 18 annual observations from 2008 to 2025, with no missing years. The separate estimated pre-2008 series and incomplete 2026 are excluded. No months are inferred, no values are filled, and no smoothing is applied.
All 18 totals agree exactly with DSEC indicator 14040, the overall total in the travel-document grouping. The 2025 total also agrees with the published tourism report.
Definitions over time
Research notes report that non-resident workers and foreign students are excluded from 2008; the primary definition note is not yet retained. The 18 annual DSEC totals are verified and used exactly as returned. DSEC keeps the earlier estimated series separate.
Research notes report an April 2015 change in origin classification, from residence to issuing place of travel document. The primary change note is not yet retained. This prototype uses verified overall totals; origin breakdowns require that note to be reviewed before use.
Release & revisions
The service returns no revision symbols for these observations and does not provide their individual release dates. Empty remarks do not guarantee the figures have never been revised. The corroborating 2025 report is dated February 2026.
This is a frozen retrieval snapshot. A future update should preserve it, compare every historical year and document changes before replacing data. CSV downloads follow the selected year range.
DSEC permits reproduction of these statistics with source attribution. Snapshot retrieved 7 October 2026.