{"id":16322,"date":"2021-03-29T16:14:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T16:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=16322"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:46:12","slug":"macau-sees-highest-visitor-numbers-since-start-of-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-sees-highest-visitor-numbers-since-start-of-covid-19-pandemic","title":{"rendered":"Macau sees highest visitor numbers since start of Covid-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Macao Government Tourism Office, total arrivals were 32,647 on Friday March 26, a year-on-year increase of 1,309 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau.- Macau continues to show small signs of recovery as the<strong>\u00a0Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) reports the highest single day and weekly visitor arrival totals\u00a0<\/strong>since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An average of\u00a0<strong>27,120 visitors per day arrived in Macau\u00a0<\/strong>between March 20 and March 26, an increase of\u00a0<strong>109.5 per cent over the Golden Week holiday period\u00a0<\/strong>in February and a 77.7 per cent rise over the February average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>highest daily volume <\/strong>since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic was<strong> recorded on Friday 26 March<\/strong> with 32,647 visitors arrivals, a year-on-year increase of 1,309 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Macao Government Tourism Office has implemented <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-up-6-in-second-week-of-march\"><em>an array of online and offline promotions<\/em><\/a>\u00a0spotlighting Macau as a healthy, safe and quality destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau authorities also announced that&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-reduces-quarantine-for-hong-kong-arrivals-to-14-days\"><em>arrivals from Hong Kong will now have to undergo a quarantine of 14 days<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;instead of 21 days plus seven days of health self-management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau\u2019s gross gaming revenue (GGR) for March is expected to be released this week. GGR <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-continues-to-improve-through-march\" target=\"_blank\">reached MOP5.85bn (US$731.3m) for the first 21 days of the month<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Macao Government Tourism Office, total arrivals were 32,647 on Friday March 26, a year-on-year increase of 1,309 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"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":"Macau is demonstrating initial signs of tourism recovery, with the Macao Government Tourism Office reporting the highest single-day and weekly visitor arrivals since the pandemic's onset. This surge, coupled with reduced quarantine requirements for Hong Kong arrivals, is expected to positively influence March's Gross Gaming Revenue, which reached MOP5.85bn for the first 21 days.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office","focusai_location":"Macau, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Forecast Impact","query":"How might the reported visitor arrival surge influence the final Q1 GGR figures for Macau, and what implications does this have for operator profitability guidance?"},{"label":"Policy Efficacy","query":"To what extent have the Macao Government Tourism Office's promotional campaigns and revised quarantine protocols contributed to this specific visitor recovery trend, and are these measures sustainable?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,158],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-16322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/16322","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=16322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16358,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322\/revisions\/16358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}