Macau saw a daily average of close to 211,000 visitor arrivals during the first three days of this year’s Labour Day holiday period, according to data from the city’s Public Security Police.
A total of 632,951 visitors entered Macau between May 1 and May 3 inclusive, the first three days of the Labour Day break on the Chinese mainland, the city’s main tourism feeder market.
The figure was up 5.0 percent compared with the first three days of the Labour Day period in 2025, when Macau logged 602,967 visitor arrivals.
China’s State Council has designated the Labour Day holiday on the mainland as running from May 1 (Friday) to May 5 (Tuesday) inclusive.
Saturday saw the highest single-day tally of the three days, at 247,729. It set a new all-time single-day visitor arrival record for Macau, according to the police.
The police data do not include any breakdown of the source markets for inbound visitors.
However, they show that the city’s Border Gate – the land boundary crossing between Macau and Zhuhai, the nearest mainland city in Guangdong – was the busiest. It handled 296,300 visitor arrivals in aggregate over the three days.
The second-busiest boundary checkpoint was the Hengqin Port crossing, also linking Macau to the Chinese mainland, which handled an aggregate of 124,569 visitor arrivals during the same period.
Nearly a week ahead of the Labour Day holiday period, a total of 28 luxury Macau hotel brands – all within casino resorts – were already indicating they had no rooms available for booking for at least three nights during the Labour Day break, according to checks of the hotels’ own reservation sites by GGRAsia.
