Macau to resume inbound flights from Monday

After a 14-day ban, all commercial passenger flights to Macau will resume from January 24.

Macau.- Macau’s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre has announced that the ban that prohibits the arrival of flights from outside China to Macau will be lifted from January 24. The ban had been taken as a Covid-19 countermeasure.

Those aged 12 and above who want to enter Macau must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Stricter quarantine measures have been implemented for incoming passengers from destinations deemed “very high-risk” in 22 countries/regions.

Before heading to Macau, travellers from these high-risk areas must present three negative Covid-19 nucleic acid test results within five days and at least 24 hours apart. They will be quarantined for 28 days after arriving in Macau.

Macau visitor arrivals up 30.7% in 2021

The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) has reported that Macau received 7.971m tourists in 2021, up 30.7 per cent year-on-year. The average length of stay of visitors increased to 1.6 days during the period.

The number of overnight visitors in 2021 was close to 3.7 million, a year-on-year increase of 31 per cent. Official figures show that overnight visitors accounted for 48 per cent of total visitor arrivals. The number of visitors to Macau on the same day increased by 30.4 per cent to about 4.01 million.

Mainland China continues to be the only country to have a largely quarantine-free travel bubble with Macau.