{"id":23403,"date":"2021-10-11T10:44:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T13:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=23403"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:56:11","slug":"macau-golden-week-visitors-down-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-golden-week-visitors-down-93","title":{"rendered":"Macau Golden Week visitors down 93%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just 8,159 people arrived in Macau during the festive period after new local Covid-19 cases were detected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- The Public Security Police has released data showing that the daily average of visitors to Macau during the October Golden Week 2021 was down 93.7 per cent <\/strong>compared with last year. The decline in visits came after new Covid-19 cases were confirmed in Macau.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the festive period, from October 1 to October 7, 8,159 people<\/strong> arrived in Macau. The daily average was 1,166. On the first two days, 3,122 people arrived in Macau. In October Golden Week 2020<\/a>, 156,300 visitors travelled to Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China\u00b4s travel spending decreases <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Data from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism showed that travel spending during this year\u2019s holiday in China was 40 per cent lower than in 2019 before the pandemic hit. Compared to 2020, spending was 4.7 per cent lower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also:<\/strong> Macau occupancy rate down 25.3% in August<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just 8,159 people arrived in Macau during the festive period after new local Covid-19 cases were detected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":19973,"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 93.7% decline in visitor arrivals during October Golden Week 2021 compared to the previous year, with only 8,159 people entering the region, following new local Covid-19 cases. This severe reduction in visitation, coupled with a broader 40% decrease in China's travel spending compared to pre-pandemic levels, significantly impacts Macau's gaming vertical and the operational outlook for its concessionaires.","focusai_entities":"Public Security Police, Ministry of Culture and Tourism","focusai_location":"Macau, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Q4 GGR?","query":"What is the projected impact on Q4 GGR for Macau's concessionaires given this Golden Week performance and sustained visitation challenges?"},{"label":"Operator Capex Adjustments?","query":"How are integrated resort operators adjusting their capital expenditure and operational expenditure forecasts in light of sustained visitation challenges and reduced revenue streams?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,158],"tags":[23907,23906],"class_list":["post-23403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-land-based-casino","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23403","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\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23419,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23403\/revisions\/23419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}