{"id":20486,"date":"2021-07-20T15:54:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T15:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=20486"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:25:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:25:44","slug":"macau-visitor-arrivals-up-20-2-in-h1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-20-2-in-h1","title":{"rendered":"Macau visitor arrivals up 20.2% in H1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau registered 3.93m visitor arrivals in the first half of the year, up 20.2 per cent from the previous period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau.- The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) has reported that Macau <strong>welcomed 3.93m tourists in the first half of 2021<\/strong>, up 20.2 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of those that visited<strong>\u00a0Macau in the first half, 90.7 per cent<\/strong>\u00a0came from mainland China, which is the only country to have a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/covid-19-vaccine-passports-could-speed-up-macau-tourism-recovery\">largely quarantine-free travel bubble<\/a>\u00a0with Macau.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Overnight stays during the first six months of the year<\/strong> reached 2.06m, up 33.2 per cent from last year. The number of same-day visitors was 1.87m, with an average length stay of 1.6 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/rise-in-macau-visitor-numbers-after-guangdong-restrictions-eased\">the average hotel occupancy rate<\/a>\u00a0dropped below 50 per cent, mainly due to the rise in Covid-19 cases in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-tightens-controls-amid-rise-in-covid-19-cases-in-guangdong\">Guangdong province<\/a>. In May, the average room occupancy rate for five-star hotels in Macau had been 67.1 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During June, Macau reported some 528,519 visitors, of which 313,441 were same-day visitors and 215,078 were overnight visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-falls-37-in-june\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macau\u2019s Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR)<\/a><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>also<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>fell in June after months of improvement, registering a decline of 37 per cent to&nbsp;<strong>MOP$6.54bn ($817.3m)<\/strong>, from&nbsp;<strong>MOP10.45bn (US$1.31bn)<\/strong>&nbsp;in May<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO)<\/strong>\u00a0director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said she believes Macau could welcome 7 million to 8 million visitors in 2021 based on the numbers the city registered during the first five months of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau registered 3.93m visitor arrivals in the first half of the year, up 20.2 per cent from the previous period.<\/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 3.93 million visitor arrivals in H1 2021, a 20.2% year-on-year increase, with 90.7% from mainland China. However, June saw a significant 37% decline in Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) to MOP$6.54bn ($817.3m) and hotel occupancy rates dropped below 50% due to rising Covid-19 cases in Guangdong province, impacting the recovery trajectory.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Guangdong","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":"Q3 GGR Impact?","query":"What is the projected Q3 GGR impact for Macau, considering the continued regional COVID-19 volatility and travel restrictions?"},{"label":"Operator Strategy Adjustments?","query":"How are integrated resort operators in Macau adjusting their capital expenditure and marketing strategies in response to these fluctuating visitor numbers and GGR performance?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-20486","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\/20486","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=20486"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20508,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20486\/revisions\/20508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}