{"id":14368,"date":"2021-02-08T16:15:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T16:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=14368"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:00:45","slug":"macau-still-receiving-hotel-bookings-for-chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-still-receiving-hotel-bookings-for-chinese-new-year","title":{"rendered":"Macau still receiving hotel bookings for Chinese New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although the hotels have had many cancellations, new bookings from mainland China are continuing to come in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-\u00a0Macau continues to show some optimism that it will see an uptick in visitor numbers and revenue over the Chinese New Year holiday period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The annual Spring Festival<strong> usually sees more than 400 million people usually travel within China<\/strong> but authorities have advised against travel this year in a bid to prevent an escalation in Covid-19 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hotels in Macau have seen increasing numbers of cancellations as a result but note that they are still receiving fresh bookings from mainland Chinses tourists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ian Coughlan, president of Wynn Macau president, also noted that the number of Covid-19 cases in mainland China had dropped from <strong>\u201cfrom the hundreds to the teens,&#8221; inspiring more confidence <\/strong>in travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau&#8217;s casinos saw their best monthly performance since the Covid-19 pandemic began last month<em> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-sees-best-monthly-ggr-in-12-months\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>with a 2.6 per cent month-on-month increase in gross gaming revenue (GGR)<\/strong><\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the hotels have had many cancellations, new bookings from mainland China are continuing to come in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":14383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau maintains cautious optimism for an uptick in visitor numbers and Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) during the Chinese New Year, despite official travel advisories against non-essential travel from mainland China due to COVID-19. While hotels report cancellations, new bookings continue to materialize, supported by a reported decline in mainland COVID-19 cases. This sentiment follows Macau's recent 2.6% month-on-month GGR increase, marking its strongest monthly performance since the pandemic's onset.","focusai_entities":"Wynn Macau, Ian Coughlan","focusai_location":"Macau, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis?","query":"What is the projected GGR impact of the continued mainland China travel advisories versus the observed booking trends for Macau's Q1 performance, considering the historical significance of the Chinese New Year period?"},{"label":"Operational Adjustments?","query":"How are Macau's integrated resorts adjusting their operational expenditure, staffing levels, and marketing strategies in response to fluctuating visitor confidence and evolving COVID-19 protocols, particularly concerning VIP and mass market segments?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338,158],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-14368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14368","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14368"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14393,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14368\/revisions\/14393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}