The Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) registered 6.4 million visitor arrivals in the first five months this year, up 51 percent year-on-year.

According to the Macao Statistics and Census Bureau Saturday, Macao host a daily average of 44,247 visitor arrivals in May, corresponding to nearly 10 percent of its population. With a land coverage of 26.9 square kilometers, Macao has 451,000 residents.

Some 58 percent of all visitors to Macao were China's mainland travelers during the period, followed by visitors from Hong Kong and Taiwan, who took up 30.8 percent and 7.1 percent respectively.

(Xinhua News Agency June 21, 2004)