Macau visitor arrivals drop 15.5% in Jan. from prior month on Covid curbs


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Macau visitor arrivals fell 15.4 percent in January from the prior month due to tighter travel restrictions in response to Covid outbreaks in neighboring Zhuhai and Guangdong. However, compared with the prior year, arrivals were up 24.7 percent at 694,430, according to figures from the Census and Statistics Service. Same day visitors surged 56.5 percent to 450,428. Overnight visitors fell by 9.3 percent, while the average length of stay shortened by 0.3 of a day year-on-year to 1.3 days. The proportion of day-trippers, which do not tend to be as lucrative, rose to nearly 65 percent of the total in...