Despite how well revenues might be doing, tourism is showing healthy increases in Macau. The city’s tourism promotion body have announced a 37% year on year increase for the 2019 Labour Day holiday weekend.

The Macau Government Tourism Office celebrated the increase in a press release. They immediately credited the increase on visits from Mainland China residents traveling across the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao bridge, and noted of the 531,503 total tourists who entered the administrative region for the first three days of the four-day weekend, 436,679 were from China, an increase of 42.7% when compared to 2018.

The decision to extend the holiday into a four day weekend likely meant that more people were willing to travel. They wrote that the decision to make it a longer holiday meant “more mainland residents were enticed to travel during the mentioned period…”The total four day weekend saw 636,644 visitors, excluding students and employees.

Each hotel stay resulted in more money, as well. The average hotel rate increased 16.7%. With 40,162 total rooms and a 96.2% occupancy rate for the holiday period, a rise of 1.9%, resort operators and hotels made out with a handsome revenue.