Macau air tourism strongest it’s ever been

Macau keeps finding new ways to fit even more people into the city. After a month of record high tourism, Macau International Airport (MIA) has reported its busiest month since it opened 24 years ago.

In total, MIA exceeded 800,000 passengers for the month of April, the first time it’s ever accomplished that feat. Macau International Airport Co Ltd. remarked that this was a 19% increase year-on-year. This was helped by increased air traffic, with 6,400 landings and takeoffs in April, a 21% increase for the same period.

They expect to keep growing this number as well. MIA noted in the release that it will work with the Macau government to increase routes, and collaborate on advertising Macau as a “world tourism and leisure center.”

This increase in air travel likely helped carry Macau to its best Labour Day tourism numbers as well. The Macau Government Tourism office recently announced a 37% increase of tourist traffic over the long weekend, in large part thanks to the new Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao bridge, but also in some part due to air travel.