{"id":22863,"date":"2021-09-22T10:27:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T13:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=22863"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:27:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:27:54","slug":"macau-received-409207-arrivals-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-received-409207-arrivals-in-august","title":{"rendered":"Macau received 409,207 arrivals in August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Macau received only 409,207 visitors in August, down 48.2 per cent when compared to July, mainly due to restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- The national statistics bureau has reported that 409,207 visitors arrived in Macau last month, down 48.2 per cent when compared to July, when\u00a0the city recorded 789,407 visitors<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macau also saw a decline in GGR in August<\/a>, a month that was impacted by local cases of Covid-19<\/a> and hundreds of cancelled flights. At MOP$4.44bn (US$554.5m), August\u2019s GGR was the lowest since September 2020<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the decline in August,\u00a0authorities are confident the city will see a rebound in the following months<\/strong>, especially during the\u00a0October Golden Week<\/a>\u00a0when Macau expects to\u00a0receive 35,000 visitors a day.<\/strong><\/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. Last year, the\u00a0number of visitors<\/a>\u00a0entering the city surpassed 20,000 a day on average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guangdong removed from Macau\u2019s inbound quarantine list<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Nanhuaxi subdistrict in Haizhu district and the Jianshe subdistrict in Yuexiu district are the latest areas to be removed from Macau\u2019s inbound quarantine list<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The news was announced by Macau\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\u2019s 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 largely quarantine-free travel bubble<\/a> with Macau. The province of Guangdong has been the biggest single source of Macau\u2019s central area travellers this year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Macau\u2019s Statistics and Census Service, during the first eight months of the year, Macau welcomed more than 4.66m visitors from mainland China<\/strong>, and 60.6 per cent of them came from Guangdong. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Macau received only 409,207 visitors in August, down 48.2 per cent when compared to July, mainly due to restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17534,"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 substantial 48.2% decline in August visitor arrivals and its lowest GGR since September 2020, totaling MOP$4.44bn, primarily due to COVID-19 restrictions and flight cancellations. Despite this downturn, authorities anticipate a rebound, particularly during the October Golden Week, with expectations of 35,000 daily visitors and 80% hotel occupancy. Travel restrictions remain dynamic, with some Guangdong areas removed from quarantine lists while parts of Fujian and Guangzhou were added due to new COVID-19 outbreaks, maintaining Mainland China as Macau's primary, largely quarantine-free, travel source.","focusai_entities":"Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes, Macao Government Tourism Office, Macau\u2019s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre, Macau\u2019s Statistics and Census Service","focusai_location":"Macau, Guangdong, Nanhuaxi subdistrict, Haizhu district, Jianshe subdistrict, Yuexiu district, Fujian, Guangzhou, Mainland China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Golden Week Impact?","query":"What specific policy adjustments or marketing initiatives are being implemented to ensure the projected 35,000 daily visitors for October Golden Week are achieved, and what is the contingency plan if these targets are not met?"},{"label":"GGR Recovery Trajectory?","query":"Given the dynamic nature of regional COVID-19 outbreaks and associated travel restrictions, what is the revised GGR forecast for Q4 and FY2021, and what are the key upside and downside risks to this projection?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-22863","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\/22863","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=22863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22878,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22863\/revisions\/22878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}