Over 200,000 visitors from the Chinese mainland are expected to flush in the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) under the mainland's facilitated individual travel (FIT) scheme during the upcoming May Day holiday.

The Macao SAR government would make an all-out endeavor to deal with the large passenger flow during the week-long holiday, said Manuel Pires, deputy director of the Macao Tourist Office in a joint press conference held by the Tourist Office, the Health Service, the Customs and the Public Security Police Bureau on Thursday.

Pires said that based on the past experiences in handling "Golden Week Travel," the tourist authority expected some 312,000 mainland tourists to make trips to Macao during the week-long holiday. Among them, 64 percent or some 200,000 tourists would come under FIT scheme.

Pires said that the Macao Tourist Office would activate a notification mechanism with its counterpart in Guangdong Province during the holiday reporting the number of tourist arrivals to Macao as well as hotel room rate and price on a daily basis, which is expected to help control the passenger flow.

The small city with a mere land coverage of less than 30 square kilometers is under a heavy pressure from handling vacation travelers during three long holidays, namely the Chinese New Year in February, the Labor Day in May and the National Day in October.

With a population of 460,000, it hosts over 16 million visitor arrivals last year with over half of them from China's mainland.