Macao logged over 4.7 million visitor arrivals in the first two months of 2008, up 13.9 percent year-on-year, according to statistics released by the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR).

Visitor arrivals reached more than 2.4 million in February this year, an increase of 11.6 percent compared with the previous month, among which the majority came from the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong, which accounted for 57.7 percent and 28.4 percent respectively, according to the figures released by the SAR government's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).

The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), in its recent report, placed the SAR as the third most popular tourism destination in the Asia Pacific region, with projected international arrivals standing at 38 million by 2010, only after the United States and the Chinese Mainland.

In addition, analyzed by mode of transport, DSEC said visitors to Macao mainly use land transport, which went up by 16.8 percent year-on-year to over 2.9 million in February of 2008, while those by sea and air stood at over 1.5 million and 260,000 respectively.