China's Macao Special Administrative Region recorded 228,156 package tourists in June, according to official statistics issued on Monday.

The figures released by the government-run Statistics and Census Service indicated that the number of the package tourists arrivals in the month represented a remarkable year-on-year increase of 24.3 percent.

The number of group visitors from the Chinese mainland stood at 148,319, a year-on-year drop of 9.0 percent, the figures showed.

(Xinhua News Agency August 14, 2007)