{"id":17619,"date":"2021-05-06T16:11:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T16:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=17619"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:45:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:45:37","slug":"macau-received-165500-visitors-arrivals-over-labour-day-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-received-165500-visitors-arrivals-over-labour-day-break","title":{"rendered":"Macau received 165,500 visitors arrivals over Labour Day break"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The peak in arrivals came at the start of the Labour Day break with more than 44,000 visitors arriving on May 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau.- Macau\u2019s Public Security Police have reported that 165,500 tourists came to Macau during the<strong>\u00a0Labour Day break<\/strong>\u00a0between May 1 and May 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-sees-highest-number-of-arrivals-during-labour-day-break\">visitor arrivals<\/a>\u00a0was close to predictions made by Macau authorities, who had predicted <strong>a 20 per cent increase<\/strong>\u00a0in daily visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite being a good performance,\u00a0<strong>numbers were a long way from 2019 levels, when Macau registered 531,000 visitors\u00a0<\/strong>arrivals during what was a four-day break in 2019 (this year the Labour Day break was extended).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Macau Government Tourism Office,\u00a0<strong>the first day set the highest daily volume of visitors<\/strong>\u00a0since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, with 44,000\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-receives-99568-tourists-during-first-week-of-april\">arrivals<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Macau authorities reported that the daily total then fell <\/strong>to 36,000\u00a0and 34,000 for May 2 and 3. May 4 saw 28,500 visitors arrivals and<strong>\u00a0May 5, 23,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brokerage JP Morgan Securities estimated that\u00a0<strong>Macau\u2019s GGR\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>for the Labour Day break could reach between 40 per cent and 50 per cent of pre-pandemic levels with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-daily-ggr-could-reach-us50m-during-labour-day-break\">a daily GGR<\/a>\u00a0of nearly\u00a0<strong>MOP400m (US$50m)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The peak in arrivals came at the start of the Labour Day break with more than 44,000 visitors arriving on May 1.<\/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 recorded 165,500 visitor arrivals during the Labour Day break (May 1-5), with a peak of 44,000 on May 1, marking the highest daily volume since the pandemic's onset. While meeting official predictions, these figures remain significantly below the 531,000 visitors observed during a shorter 2019 Labour Day period. JP Morgan Securities estimates the GGR for this period to be 40-50% of pre-pandemic levels, equating to approximately MOP400m (US$50m) daily.","focusai_entities":"Public Security Police, Macau Government Tourism Office, JP Morgan Securities","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Q2 2024 GGR Outlook?","query":"What is the projected GGR run-rate for Q2 2024 based on this Labour Day performance and current market conditions?"},{"label":"Visitor Demographics Analysis?","query":"How do the demographics of these Labour Day visitors compare to pre-pandemic periods, specifically regarding high-value player segments and their impact on NGR?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-17619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17619","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=17619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17647,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17619\/revisions\/17647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}