{"id":22696,"date":"2021-09-16T12:12:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T15:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=22696"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:37:11","slug":"macau-announces-return-of-stay-dine-and-see-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-announces-return-of-stay-dine-and-see-initiative","title":{"rendered":"Macau announces return of &#8220;Stay, Dine and See&#8221; initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has announced that the &#8220;Stay, Dine and See Macau&#8221; will resume from September 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- In a bid to boost <strong>domestic tourism<\/strong>,<strong> <\/strong>the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has announced that it will resume the\u00a0<strong>\u201cStay, Dine and See Macao\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0initiative from September 18. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scheme <strong>lets Macau residents book government-subsidised staycations at hotels and guest houses<\/strong>. It was temporarily halted after\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-on-alert-after-a-community-outbreak-of-covid-19\">local cases of Covid-19<\/a>\u00a0were detected in Macau. It will now remain in place until the end of December with 13 adjusted itineraries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the MGTO,\u00a0between April 15 to July 31,<strong> nearly 32,961 people signed up <\/strong>and 17,492 hotel packages were sold through the initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the outbreak of local Covid-19 cases, Macau carried out\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-mass-testing-ends-with-no-new-covid-19-cases\">mass testing for Covid-19<\/a>, in which\u00a0<strong>716,251 people were tested<\/strong>, all of them returning negative results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MGTO has predicted\u00a0<strong>the city could receive 30,000 visitors per day<\/strong>\u00a0during the October Golden Week. Last year, the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/visitation-to-macau-surpasses-20000-a-day\">number of visitors<\/a>\u00a0entering the city surpassed 20,000 a day on average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has announced that the &#8220;Stay, Dine and See Macau&#8221; will resume from September 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) is set to resume its \"Stay, Dine and See Macao\" domestic tourism initiative from September 18, following a temporary halt due to local COVID-19 cases. This government-subsidized staycation scheme for Macau residents aims to boost local tourism, with the MGTO projecting 30,000 visitors per day during the October Golden Week.","focusai_entities":"Macao Government Tourism Office, MGTO","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.85), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.75), investor_analyst (0.88), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected incremental GGR contribution from this domestic tourism initiative for Macau's integrated resorts, particularly within the mass-market segment?"},{"label":"Sustainability of Domestic Growth","query":"How sustainable is Macau's reliance on domestic tourism to offset the decline in international visitation, and what are the long-term implications for operator revenue diversification strategies?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-22696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22696","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=22696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22714,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22696\/revisions\/22714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}