Preliminary statistics released by the Tourism Administration of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government on the 7th showed that during the golden week of the Spring Festival this year (from January 31 to February 6), the total number of inbound tourists in Macao was 113699, an increase of 25.4% over the Spring Festival holiday last year. The Tourism Administration said that before the Spring Festival, the epidemic situation in adjacent areas eased, relevant measures were relaxed, and there were a series of wonderful New Year activities in Macao during the Spring Festival, which increased the number of visitors to Macao compared with last year's Spring Festival. Among them, nearly 22000 tourists visited Australia on the third day of the new year (February 3), which is the highest single day passenger volume during the golden week of the Spring Festival. According to the information provided by the industry, the average occupancy rate of Macao's hotel industry places (hotels, apartment hotels and economical accommodation places) during the Spring Festival Golden Week was 63.8%, an increase of 15.2 percentage points over the Spring Festival last year. Among them, the average occupancy rate of five-star hotels was 70.3%, up 19.3 percentage points; The average occupancy rate of four-star hotels was 53.5%, up 3.6 percentage points; The average occupancy rate of three-star hotels was 59.2%, up 14.0 percentage points. The Tourism Administration said it would continue to carry out various work to broaden the source of tourists for the mainland market. For example, through cooperation with airlines, e-commerce and online tourism platforms, a series of consumption concessions such as air tickets and hotel accommodation are provided to mainland tourists to enhance Macao's tourism competitiveness. At the same time, the tourism administration will strengthen the publicity and preferential promotion on the social media platform, and deploy a number of projects to attract tourists to Australia after the Spring Festival. It is planned to carry out a series of roadshow tour activities in many mainland cities in the Greater Bay area of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and continue to hold "Macao week" large-scale road exhibitions and tourism exhibition promotion meetings in cities with high tourist sources in the mainland. Continue to publicize the message that Macao is safe and suitable for tourism, strive for more mainland tourists, strengthen the driving role of tourism in other industries, and promote the recovery of Macao's tourism market. (Xinhua News Agency)