People enjoy their time on San Ma Lo avenue during celebrations on the first day of the Chinese lunar new year in Macao on Jan 22, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP)

MACAO - Visitor arrivals in Macao surged 101.3 percent year-on-year to 1,397,748 in January 2023, the Macao Special Administrative Region's (SAR) statistical agency said on Monday.

Overnight visitors and same-day visitors soared by 234.5 percent and 29.1 percent year-on-year to 816,199 and 581,549, respectively

The figure represented a month-on-month rise of 259.0 percent, which was ascribable to the easing of anti-epidemic measures for entry into Macao and the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, showed the latest report from the Statistics and Census Service.

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Overnight visitors and same-day visitors soared by 234.5 percent and 29.1 percent year-on-year to 816,199 and 581,549, respectively.

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The number of visitors from the Chinese mainland increased by 54.5 percent year-on-year to 991,641 while visitors from China's Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan region leapt by 704.3 percent and 139.0 percent year-on-year to 356,958 and 18,868, respectively.