Macao logged a 59.6 percent year-on- year increase in group visitors in February, which witnessed the Chinese New Year holiday.

Figures released by the Macao Statistics and Census Bureau on Tuesday suggested that the number of this year's festival goers from China's mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan to Macao surged by 46. 5 percent, 150 percent and 16.4 percent, respectively, from the same period of last year. The total tally of group visitors reached 194,322 in February.

China's mainland was the largest source market of group tourists to Macao, contributing 147,384 tourists to Macao in February.

The statistics also showed that with five new hotels coming off stream, the number of hotel rooms grew by 10 percent year-on-year to reach 10,181 in February, which lodged 288,249 hotel guests in the month. The averaged hotel occupancy rate amounted to 65.4 percent during the period.