Visitor arrivals to Macau are down in August as the number of tourists from mainland China keeps falling.

According to data released by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) on Wednesday, Macau received 3.03 million visitors last month, up 14.5% from the previous month but down 1.7% year-on-year.

The daily average of visitor arrivals in August stood at 101,103 with the same-day visitors amounting to 53% of the total, down 3.5%year-on-year. The number of overnight visitors rose slightly by 0.4% to 1.42 million.

Mainland visitors dropped 1.7% year-on-year to 2.09 million, accounted for 69% of all visitor arrivals. Hong Kong residents made up 21.1% of the total number of visitor arrivals. Their number was up 0.8% year-on-year while those from the Republic of Korea declined by 24.9% to 43,710.