{"id":21775,"date":"2021-08-20T13:42:43","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T16:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=21775"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:26:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:26:33","slug":"macau-received-789407-arrivals-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-received-789407-arrivals-in-july","title":{"rendered":"Macau received 789,407 arrivals in July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau received 789,407 visitors in July, up 49.36 per cent when compared to the previous month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau.- Macau\u2019s Public Security Police have reported that<strong>\u00a0789,407 visitors came to Macau in July<\/strong>, a growth of 49.36 per cent month-on-month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The figure also represented<strong>\u00a0a 10-fold increase when compared to the same month of 2020<\/strong>, when Macau was under Covid-19 countermeasures and lockdowns. However, in July 2019, the city welcomed 3.5m visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-daily-tourist-arrivals-on-the-up\">daily tally of inbound tourists<\/a>&nbsp;reached 16,600 on Monday, August 15 and&nbsp;<strong>16,7000&nbsp;<\/strong>on Tuesday, August 16, up 85 per cent when compared to the previous Sunday\u2019s 9,000 arrivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Macau\u2019s Public Security Police&nbsp;<\/strong>said the number of arrivals started to increase after Macau carried out&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-mass-testing-ends-with-no-new-covid-19-cases\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mass testing for Covid-19<\/a>, in which&nbsp;<strong>716,251 people were tested<\/strong>, all of them returning negative results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The recovery also follows the announcement of an extension for the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-eases-border-measures-with-guangdong\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">validity of negative Covid-19 tests<\/a>&nbsp;for visitors from Guangdong province to 48 hours. The measure covers direct inbound and outbound land trips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mainland China continues to be 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\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-up-29-in-july\">Macau\u2019s Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR)<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>in July grew 29 per cent after a weak June. At MOP8.44bn (US$1.05bn), the figure was also up 528 per cent when compared to July 2020. Aggregate\u00a0<strong>casino GGR for the first seven months of the year<\/strong>\u00a0totals MOP57.4bn, up 64 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">July\u2019s figures came after authorities ended&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ends-quarantine-requirements-for-visitors-from-guangdong\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">restrictions for those coming from Guangdong<\/a>&nbsp;as Covid-19 cases declined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau received 789,407 visitors in July, up 49.36 per cent when compared to the previous month.<\/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 experienced a significant surge in July visitor arrivals, up 49.36% month-on-month, following eased COVID-19 restrictions and mass testing. This recovery drove Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) to MOP8.44bn (US$1.05bn), a 29% increase from June and a 528% rise year-on-year. While showing strong growth, these figures remain substantially below pre-pandemic levels from July 2019.","focusai_entities":"Public Security Police","focusai_location":"Macau, Guangdong province, Mainland China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Macau GGR Recovery Timeline?","query":"What is the projected timeline for Macau's GGR and visitor arrivals to reach 2019 levels, considering current policy trajectories and regional travel dynamics?"},{"label":"Concessionaire Capital Expenditure?","query":"How will the sustained recovery in visitor volume impact the capital expenditure and operational strategies of Macau's concessionaires in the coming fiscal quarters?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,158],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-21775","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\/21775","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=21775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21819,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21775\/revisions\/21819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}