The city saw its visitors spend a total of MOP12.25 billion (US$1.53 billion) during the second quarter of this year, shrinking 24.7 per cent year-on-year, official data released by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) reveals. The data indicated that overnight visitors in the city spent MOP9.58 billion in the territory during the three months, a year-on-year drop of 30.4 per cent, while spending by same-day tourists posted a year-on-year increase of 7.3 per cent, accounting for MOP2.67 billion of the total. On average, spending per visitor decreased by 22.1 per cent year-on-year to MOP1,688, while spending per head by visitors from China, the city’s biggest source of tourists, plunged 24.3 per cent to MOP2,012 from one year ago.
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