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In its 2025 Annual Tourism Monitor released this week, the non-profit organisation estimated Macau welcomed 19.2 million international visitors from January to June, translating to a 14.9 percent year-on-year increase.
But the PATA definition of “international visitors” includes arrivals from Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, whereas Macau’s authorities do not classify those as overseas arrivals. According to the Macau Statistics and Census Service, the city received only 1.34 million international tourists in the same period, up 14.8 percent from a year earlier.
Read more in Macau News Agency
