{"id":12543,"date":"2020-12-09T11:30:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T11:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=12543"},"modified":"2026-04-23T23:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:20:30","slug":"macau-to-end-year-with-5-million-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-to-end-year-with-5-million-visitors","title":{"rendered":"Macau to end year with 5 million visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Macao Government Tourism Office has said the SAR is not likely to attract many visitors in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau.- The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has announced that the SAR is likely to end the year 2020 with a total visitor number of around 5 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number is obviously a huge fall on last year&#8217;s 40 million visitors. Half of the 2020&#8217;s visitors were recorded in January before the Covid-19 pandemic hit the region. So far, December is seeing daily entries of between 18,000 and 20,000 and Macau does not expect to see that increase this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MGTO Director, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, told press after the Global Tourism Economy Forum: \u201cI don\u2019t think we will reach 6 million this year [\u2026] It was a very difficult year [\u2026] January was a very good month with 3 million visitors but the remaining 11 months didn\u2019t even match that amount&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChristmas and New Year is not traditionally a travelling period for mainland Chinese so we don\u2019t anticipate a very high number of bookings. But we would hope that there will be more retail shopping. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are having the Macau Shopping Festival at the time and we hope this kind of activity can stimulate more spending in Macau and attract more visitors.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities in Macau recently announced <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-cancels-new-years-eve-celebrations\" target=\"_blank\">the cancellation of the New Year\u2019s Eve fireworks display<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fernandes backed the Health Bureau&#8217;s decision. She said: \u201cI don\u2019t think this decision will have a significant impact [in visitation for December].&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Macao Government Tourism Office has said the SAR is not likely to attract many visitors in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Macao Government Tourism Office projects Macau will conclude 2020 with approximately 5 million visitors, a drastic reduction from 40 million in 2019, primarily due to the Covid-19 pandemic. December's daily visitor numbers remain low, with no anticipated increase, despite efforts to stimulate retail spending through events like the Macau Shopping Festival.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office, MGTO, Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Health Bureau","focusai_location":"Macau, Macao, SAR, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (0.98), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Q4 GGR Impact?","query":"What is the projected impact of these low visitor numbers on Macau's Q4 2020 Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) for integrated resort operators?"},{"label":"Operator Liquidity Strategy?","query":"How are Macau's major gaming operators adjusting their liquidity management and cost structures to mitigate the sustained impact of reduced visitation and GGR?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,157,16338],"tags":[257],"class_list":["post-12543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12543"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12568,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543\/revisions\/12568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}