{"id":22832,"date":"2021-09-21T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T14:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=22832"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:29:32","slug":"guangdong-removed-from-macaus-inbound-quarantine-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/guangdong-removed-from-macaus-inbound-quarantine-list","title":{"rendered":"Guangdong removed from Macau\u2019s inbound quarantine list"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Authorities have announced that no areas in the neighbouring province of Guangdong will remain on Macau’s inbound quarantine list as of September 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- The Nanhuaxi subdistrict in Haizhu district and the Jianshe subdistrict in Yuexiu district are the latest areas to be removed from Macau’s inbound quarantine list<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The news was announced by\u00a0Macau\u2019s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre<\/strong>, which also reported that more parts of Fujian have been added to its inbound quarantine list due to an outbreak of Covid-19 Delta variant cases there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few places in Guangzhou had also joined Macau’s quarantine-on-appearance list<\/strong> as of the start of September, following affirmation of various Covid-19 disease cases there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mainland China continues to be the only country to have a\u00a0largely quarantine-free travel bubble<\/a>\u00a0with Macau. The province of Guangdong has been the biggest single source of Macau’s central area travellers this year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Macau’s Statistics and Census Service, during the first eight months of the year,\u00a0Macau welcomed more than 4.66m visitors from mainland China<\/strong>, and 60.6 per cent of them came from Guangdong.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fujian territory has been the second-biggest source of Macau’s inbound mainland Chinese tourists<\/strong>, but Macau saw only 224,000 visitor arrivals from that region between January to August \u2013 4.8 per cent of the 4.66m tourist arrivals Macau in the eight months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macau unlikely to ease travel limits this year, analysts say<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to analysts at Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd<\/strong>, Macau is unlikely to remove its travel restrictions <\/strong>for people coming from places beyond mainland China before 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, analysts predicted GGR will start to improve in the fourth quarter. GGR in September<\/a> could reach about 30 per cent of pre-pandemic levels and 40 per cent in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They added: \u201cLonger term, Individual Visit Scheme eVisa, group visa restart, and Hong Kong travel resumption will be necessary to drive gross gaming revenue (GGR) upwards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Authorities have announced that no areas in the neighbouring province of Guangdong will remain on Macau’s inbound quarantine list as of September 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19267,"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 has largely removed Guangdong province from its inbound quarantine list as of September 21, while simultaneously adding specific areas in Fujian due to new COVID-19 Delta variant outbreaks. Guangdong remains the predominant source of Macau's mainland Chinese visitors, with analysts from Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd forecasting a GGR recovery in Q4 2021, contingent on the eventual easing of broader travel restrictions.","focusai_entities":"Macau\u2019s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre, Macau\u2019s Statistics and Census Service, Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd","focusai_location":"Macau, Guangdong, Nanhuaxi subdistrict, Haizhu district, Jianshe subdistrict, Yuexiu district, Fujian, Guangzhou, Mainland China, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Recovery Drivers?","query":"What specific policy changes, beyond the current mainland China travel bubble, are critical for Macau to achieve its projected GGR recovery to pre-pandemic levels?"},{"label":"Visitor Source Diversification?","query":"Given the reliance on Guangdong, what strategies are Macau operators and authorities considering to diversify visitor source markets and mitigate risks associated with regional travel restrictions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-22832","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\/22832","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=22832"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22852,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22832\/revisions\/22852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}