{"id":14682,"date":"2021-02-15T15:07:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T15:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=14682"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:50:20","slug":"macau-visitors-down-76-in-first-days-of-chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitors-down-76-in-first-days-of-chinese-new-year","title":{"rendered":"Macau: visitors down 76% in first days of Chinese New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The city received 47,770 visitors in the first four days of the Spring Festival Golden Week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-  Travel restrictions and the fear of travelling during the Covid-19 pandemic continue to impact visitor numbers to Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of visitors in first four days of the Chinese New Year Golden Week holiday reached 47,770, <strong>a drop of 76 per cent year-on-year.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The majority of visitors were from mainland China (43,330 \u2013 down 61 per cent year-on-year). Most arrived via the Border Gate and Hengqin Port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday and Sunday saw the best figures, with 13,193 and 17,357 arrivals respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, director of the Macao Government Tourism Office, said last week that <strong>the city should expect around 16,000 and 20,000 visitor arrivals per day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau\u2019s tourism office expects the city to receive between <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-expects-between-6-and-10-million-visitors-in-2021\" target=\"_blank\">6 and 10 million tourists this year<\/a><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city received 47,770 visitors in the first four days of the Spring Festival Golden Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":14687,"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 experienced a significant 76% year-on-year decline in visitor arrivals during the first four days of the Spring Festival Golden Week, totaling 47,770, primarily due to ongoing travel restrictions and pandemic concerns. The Macao Government Tourism Office anticipates 6 to 10 million tourists for the entire year, reflecting a cautious outlook for the region's tourism and gaming recovery.","focusai_entities":"Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Macao Government Tourism Office","focusai_location":"Macau, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), operator_casino (0.98), marketing_crm (0.75), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.92)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Macau GGR Impact?","query":"What is the projected GGR impact for Macau concessionaires given the 76% year-on-year decline in Spring Festival Golden Week visitor arrivals and the revised annual tourism forecast?"},{"label":"Regulatory Response?","query":"How might the Macao Government Tourism Office and other regulatory bodies adjust tourism promotion strategies or border policies in response to these persistently low visitor numbers?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,158],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-14682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14682","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=14682"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14726,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14682\/revisions\/14726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}