{"id":17031,"date":"2021-04-20T15:54:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=17031"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T23:15:16","slug":"macau-occupancy-rate-could-reach-80-during-labour-day-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-occupancy-rate-could-reach-80-during-labour-day-break","title":{"rendered":"Macau occupancy rate could reach 80% during Labour Day break"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Macau hopes the Labour Day break will see an improvement for the tourism and gaming sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) deputy director Cheng Wai Tong, MGTO, hopes Macau may see a hotel occupancy rate between <strong>70 per cent to 80 per cent<\/strong> during the Labour Day holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s an improvement on previous expectations of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-expects-revenue-boost-during-golden-week-holiday\">a nightly occupancy of between 40 and 50 per cent<\/a> at Macau hotels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, the Labour Day break will last<strong>\u00a0from May 1 to 5\u00a0<\/strong>and the city expects visitor volume to beat the high reported on April 16 when\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-tourism-continues-to-rise-ggr-up-slightly\">34,000 tourists arrived in Macau<\/a>, the highest daily volume of visitors since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Morgan Stanley, flight reservations from China\u00a0<strong>for the Labour Day holidays\u00a0<\/strong>are at nearly 52 per cent of 2019 levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Macau imposes new quarantine rules for three countries<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has imposed a new rule that states that travellers from\u00a0<strong>the Philippines, India and Pakistan<\/strong>\u00a0must spend four weeks in quarantine due to<strong>\u00a0a rise in the Covid-19 cases in those countries<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After quarantine, travellers must undergo seven days\u2019 self-health management. The\u00a0<strong>rule applies only to Macau residents<\/strong>\u00a0who have been to the aforementioned countries as<strong>\u00a0Macau does not permit the entry of tourists except from mainland China<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau hopes the Labour Day break will see an improvement for the tourism and gaming sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17032,"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 anticipates a significant uplift in tourism and gaming during the Labour Day holiday, with hotel occupancy projected to reach 70-80% and visitor volumes exceeding recent highs. This positive outlook is tempered by new, stringent four-week quarantine rules for Macau residents returning from the Philippines, India, and Pakistan, while tourist entry remains restricted to mainland China.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office, Cheng Wai Tong, Morgan Stanley","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Philippines, India, Pakistan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Labour Day?","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Macau's gaming concessionaires during the Labour Day holiday, considering the revised hotel occupancy and visitor volume forecasts?"},{"label":"Quarantine Rule Efficacy?","query":"How do the new four-week quarantine rules for specific countries impact the overall inbound travel strategy and potential for broader international market reopening for Macau?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,158],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-17031","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\/17031","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=17031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17039,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17031\/revisions\/17039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}