The city received 62,984 visitors on the first five days of the Chinese New Year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.- Visitor numbers for Chinese New Year failed to reach Macau’s expectations, with just 62,894 visitors arriving between February 11 and February 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Macau had hoped to see at least 100,000 tourists visit the city during the Chinese New Year period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Visitor numbers were down by 76 per cent year-on-year<\/strong> as the Chinese government recommended against travel. The best individual day was Monday, with 17,357 visitors were recorded.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n T<\/strong><\/a><\/em>he city received 47,770 visitors<\/a><\/span> in the first four days of the holiday period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, Rutger Verschuren, the president of the Macau Hotel Association, said that the Chinese New Year holiday period showed signs of improvement for the sector when compared to previous months<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most arrivals during CNY came via land<\/strong>, with 57,226 visitors rossing from mainland China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The city received 62,984 visitors on the first five days of the Chinese New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":14874,"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's Chinese New Year visitor arrivals significantly underperformed expectations, with 62,894 visitors recorded between February 11-15, a 76% year-on-year decline attributed to Chinese government travel advisories. While falling short of the 100,000-visitor target, the Macau Hotel Association indicated a sequential improvement for the sector compared to prior months, with mainland China remaining the primary source market.","focusai_entities":"Macau Hotel Association, Rutger Verschuren, Chinese government","focusai_location":"Macau, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), operator_casino (0.95), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Q1 GGR?","query":"What is the projected impact on Macau's Q1 GGR and non-gaming revenue streams, considering these CNY visitor statistics and the sequential improvement noted?"},{"label":"Operator Strategy Adjustments?","query":"How are integrated resort operators in Macau adjusting their capital expenditure and operational expenditure strategies in response to these subdued, yet sequentially improving, visitor volumes?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-14864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864","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=14864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14882,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864\/revisions\/14882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}