MACAO, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- The visitor arrivals in China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) totalled 2.56 million in September 2018, up by 3 percent year-on-year but down by 24.7 percent month-to-month, the SAR's statistics service said recently.

Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the overnight visitors (1.41 million) and same-day visitors (1.15 million) grew by 1.9 percent and 4.4 percent respectively year-on-year. The average length of stay of visitors increased by 0.1 day year-on-year to 1.4 days, with that of overnight visitors rising by 0.2 day to 2.4 days while that of same-day visitors staying at 0.2 day.

Visitors from the Chinese mainland increased by 5.7 percent year-on-year to 1.82 million in September, mainly from Guangdong Province and Hunan Province.

In the first nine months of 2018, visitor arrivals totalled 25.81 million, up by 8.3 percent year-on-year; overnight visitors (13.61 million) and same-day visitors (12.20 million) grew by 7.7 percent and 9.0 percent year-on-year respectively.