Macau now hopes October’s Golden Week will attract around 35,000 visitors a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Macau.- With\u00a0Macau\u2019s gross gaming revenue (GGR)\u00a0<\/strong>for the\u00a0second week of September<\/a>\u00a0up 6 per cent when\u00a0compared to the previous week<\/a>, Macau’s now hoping to receive 35,000 visitors a day<\/strong>\u00a0during the October Golden Week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Macao Government Tourism Office director\u00a0Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes\u00a0<\/strong>also hopes hotel occupancy could reach 80 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A few weeks ago,\u00a0Andy Wu, president of the Travel Industry Council of Macau\u00a0<\/strong>had said the holiday period in the first week of October could\u00a0exceed the 30,000 visitors per day<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>seen during the May Day Golden Week. Last year, the\u00a0number of visitors<\/a>\u00a0entering the city surpassed 20,000 a day on average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n GGR for the current month is MOP3.1bn (US$387m) to date<\/strong>, down 65 per cent when compared to pre-pandemic levels, but up 80 per cent from August, a month that was impacted by local cases of Covid-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to analysts, VIP average daily volume was up between 80 to 85 per cent month-on-month, while daily mass GGR was up 60 per cent from the previous month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd expects Macau\u2019s GGR for September will be down 60 per cent of pre-pandemic levels<\/strong> as long as the city won\u2019t be affected by another Covid-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a bid to boost domestic tourism<\/strong>, <\/strong>the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has announced that it will resume the \u201cStay, Dine and See Macao\u201d<\/strong> initiative from September 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMacau announces return of \u201cStay, Dine and See\u201d initiative<\/h2>\n\n\n\n